Sentence examples for trimming entitlement from inspiring English sources

That means trimming entitlement programs and reducing the rise in health care spending that is eroding their viability; we also probably need some tax increases.

Go easy on immediate spending cuts — we need to let the economy recover — but start work now on trimming entitlement programs, essential as they are, so they don't eventually swallow the rest of the budget.

They can't be fixed without raising and reforming taxes and trimming entitlements and defense.

Poll after poll suggests that Tea Partiers are ambivalent about trimming entitlements, even though that's the spending that will ultimately send either deficits or taxes through the roof.

And, second, Mr Bush's modest proposals for trimming entitlements are far outweighed by his obsession with tax cuts.Not only does this budget propose making permanent all of Mr Bush's previous tax cuts that currently expire between 2008 and 2010; it suggests new ones, particularly an expansion of health-saving accounts.

She acknowledged that the party wanted to trim entitlement programs, but said many of the protestors' fears were unfounded.

In previous budgets he offered to trim entitlements a bit in return for tax increases.

But the Republican Party's critique of Mr. Obama as being unwilling to trim entitlements comes as some of its own congressional candidates signaled their line of attack for the coming midterm elections: assailing the president's health care law for reductions in entitlement spending.

Gingrich can't discuss 43 because his own call for an assertive foreign policy and tax cuts sounds a lot like 43's presidency, which landed the country in a giant fiscal hole, proving that significantly diminished revenue without substantially trimmed entitlements don't do a budget any favors, especially when there are wars in the equation as well.

Neither side likes the sequester, but for very different reasons: Republicans want smaller cuts at the Pentagon, and Democrats want to replace the cuts to domestic programs by trimming some entitlements and eliminating some corporate tax breaks.

Deprived of adequate revenue-raising powers, they will be reduced to lobbying the Treasury for more, just as the Treasury is seeking to trim their entitlement.