"It's an effort to add the bells and whistles, but while creative and certainly ambitious, I think that it probably proposes too much".
He said that Mr. Pataki had proposed too much new spending without a plan to pay for all of it, and he derided the governor's plan to make large tax cuts that would start after he leaves office at the end of the year.
By playing down the chance of negotiations in favor of containment, Pollack ends up proposing too little, rather than too much.
"Changes need to be ma]de," Flower conceded, although he is unlikely to propose tinkering too much with the backroom staff, provided he is part of the next phase.
Given the economic slowdown that could cut revenues, it is clear that the governor is correct to say that the Assembly Democrats propose spending too much money for fiscal safety.
Edmund J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative-leaning research group, said the governor was still proposing to spend too much.
Still, for Mr. Putin's few public critics, and for many common Russian people, the proposed changes are too much too fast.
But for the parole board, the proximity between reality and the proposed role was too much; Garrone's request was refused.
Antitrust officials have stepped in to block deals when the proposed partners have too much overall market share, have overlapping routes or dominate a particular hub, leading to higher fares.
Although it is clear that this distinction is real and significant, I don't propose to have too much more to say about it here.
