Sentence examples for spending curbs from inspiring English sources

Instead he introduced "stealth" tax increases and tough spending curbs.

The proposal included spending curbs and tax increases.

The spending curbs in the debt-ceiling deal will not dampen growth much, but the expiry of previous stimulus will.

There are murmurings among labor unions of a winter of discontent if spending curbs are too aggressive.

After all, as Mr Bundred also pointed out, pay restraint is only one element in the spending curbs that will be needed.

They accuse Mr Obama of scheming to opt out of spending curbs that currently crimp the budget, though these are "the law of the land".

In still other debt-related news, the Senate failed to agree on a budget plan despite multiple proposals the Republicans helpfully came up with to slash spending, curb entitlements and lower taxes.

It would cut domestic and military spending; curb Medicare and Medicaid; and overhaul the tax code, limiting or repealing tax breaks and using the new revenues to lower tax rates and reduce deficits.

In only 20 of these three-month periods did a drop or weakness in consumer spending curb economic growth or weaken an expansion, and most of that occurred in the early decades.

To finance this, the government will focus on spending, curbing pay increases for civil servants, imposing a freeze on hiring of new government employees and using retiring civil servants to temporarily plug shortfalls.

Every serious bipartisan proposal to tackle the long-term budget deficit — Bowles-Simpson, the commission led by Ms. Rivlin and former Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, the National Academy of Sciences — calls for a combination of cutbacks in the growth of entitlement spending, curbing discretionary spending, including defense, and some tax increases.