The biggest barrier to reducing the budget deficit is the Republican insistence that taxes not be increased by so much as a penny.
The idea that Corzine, who single-handedly destroyed MF Global Holdings, was in a position to command so much as a penny in severance is horrifying.
On one hand, most working stiffs probably do not want financial industry executives to get so much as a penny in year-end bonuses.
If a bookseller offered so much as a penny discount, then the publisher would simply withdraw all of their books from that bookseller and encourage other publishers to do the same.
Keeping so much as a penny of the money for herself could result in hours of accusations and rage-filled threats from Tony.
The bathroom provisions of HB-2 are poorly drafted with neither teeth (HB-2 contains no penalties for ignoring the bathroom provisions--not even so much as a penny fine) nor a clear and unambiguous statutory meaning that makes them worth defending.
Not so much as an extra penny; it's scandalous.
The welfare cap; cuts to child benefit for wealthy claimants; the 1% freeze on benefits uprating: none of this is reform so much as it is penny pinching.
Yet the musicians behind the famous never saw so much as a royalty penny for its use.
I could probably ease up a little bit on this, but I stress out about money so much that tracking every penny of my spending gives me some peace of mind.
