Sentence examples for slash state from inspiring English sources

A "zero deficit" law aims to end deficit spending and slash state salaries and some pensions by up to 13%.

The medicine was always the same: end all subsidies for the poor, slash state spending on health and education, deregulate your financial sector, throw your markets open.

Facing an $8 billion deficit, falling tax receipts and high unemployment, Mr. Christie said he would slash state government and compel cities and towns to spend less.

But with capital gains and income tax revenue in free fall, the new governor's main task will be to slash state spending and try to balance the budget.

Since 2002 nearly 16,000 have pledged to come and help slash state and local budgets, limit government meddling and legalise choices that do not harm others, such as drugs, gay marriage and maybe prostitution.

Moderate Republicans and Democrats have said that it was a cruel juxtaposition to slash state revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when education is underfunded by more than $400 million.

Slash states in his autobiography that it was hard to tell if Stradlin was serious or kidding.

Last October he slashed state subsidies on fuels, more than doubling their prices.

They are both wealthy benefit claimants who advocate slashing state support for the poor.

Environmentalists, who once pilloried him for slashing state regulatory agencies, now have a seat at his table.

Norway's output has halved since 2000 and a collapse in crude prices has slashed state revenues.