But can Philip Hammond really claim credit for not increasing petrol duty when it hasn't been raised for years?
But right now, I feel the amount of choices are endless, while the amount of really good stuff is not increasing in tandem with the higher quantities.
One man said it would be "really hard" because wages were not increasing, while a woman said there was "no choice but to put up taxes".
"The hurricanes that really matter, that cause damage" are not increasing.
I stopped for a moment and thought: OK, so I can't see, but there's really not any increased danger, I can still talk and think and hold on.
"We are really not trying to increase prescriptions," said Mr. Sullivan, who writes a blog called Policy and Medicine.
"Definitely, there is an understanding from most people that you do need to manage your career … but the amount of time they spend doing it and what they actually do is not really increasing at the moment," Mellors-Bourne says.
If unencumbered sidewalk money is rolled into the $20 million the mayor is proposing for next year, he said, "then it's really not a double increase". Garcetti countered at a Monday news conference that he was "absolutely doubling" the repair money.
Local French politics, indeed, were really not very hard: you simply increase taxes, build a few schools, "then you get two years of unpopularity, two years of calm, two favourable years with flowers and little birdies, and then you're re-elected.
In others, they had announced energy trades that did not really exist, increasing their reported sales.
