Sentence examples for reducing the surplus from inspiring English sources
Even the lowest estimates in the press put the figure at well over $1 trillion, with Mr. Gore's tax cuts reducing the surplus by an additional $500 billion.
Reducing the surplus and even running a deficit for a few years is the orthodox fiscal policy response to a recession, undermining the claim by Democrats that Republicans are leading the economy off a cliff.
Tadashi Nakamae, an economist, argues that corporate restructuring is transferring wealth from households to companies in Japan, reducing the surplus cash that families have to save and swelling the coffers of businesses.
But she also attempts to use historical events like the 1933 Hog Reduction Program (a controversial plan instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise prices by paying farmers to kill off hogs, thereby reducing the surplus) to buoy the plot and add color to the characters' interactions.
Its strategy was to grant subsidies to producers of seven basic commodities wheat, corn (maize), hogs, cotton, tobacco, rice, and milk in return for reduced production, thereby reducing the surpluses that kept commodity prices low.
But she said three and four years of lowered tax rates and rising spending were consuming a larger part of the rising revenues, reducing the surpluses and resources set aside for recessions.
German surpluses would usually generate appreciation in the German currency, which would eventually reduce the surplus.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bush's economists concede that his tax plan will reduce the surplus by $1.6 trillion.
Should the two sides reach agreement on the main provisions, they would effectively reduce the surplus to $1.27 trillion or less.
"You can't reduce the surplus by reducing exports, that would be nonsense," said Christian Dreger, an economist at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin.
Pouring vats of the two together and calling the result rosé, the theory goes, will increase consumption and reduce the surplus of reds and whites.
