Sentence examples for using the deficit from inspiring English sources

In addition, of course, Democrats are using the deficit as a cudgel to undermine any popularity Republicans can earn as crowd-pleasing tax-cutters.

The real reason has a lot to do with ideology: the Tories are using the deficit as an excuse to downsize the welfare state.

Critics accuse the coalition government of using the deficit as an excuse to carry out an ideological paring-back of the state.

Although voters do not seem to have seized on the issue yet, Democrats are increasingly using the deficit as a symbol of what they say are Mr. Bush's disastrous economic policies.

The tactic of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French prime minister, seems to be to push ahead first with tax cuts, with a view to using the deficit as a tool to enforce public-spending cuts later.

My sense is that there are very few true deficit hawks; the vast majority of those who claim that title are really just using the deficit to pursue the goal of a more unequal society.

Other members of his party are using the deficits to argue that the government cannot afford to repair and upgrade the country's dilapidated infrastructure.

But more often they use the deficit to argue that we can't afford to maintain programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

But Republicans were able to use the deficit -- that had resulted from eight years of tax cuts for the rich and two wars -- as a reason to limit the size of that stimulus.

Budget deficits are a ruse, as we've seen in Wisconsin, where the governor turned a surplus into a deficit by providing corporate tax breaks, and then used the deficit as a ploy to break the unions, not just in Wisconsin, but seeking to be the first domino in a nationwide conservative movement.

Emanuel used the deficit as an excuse to close 50 public schools in Chicago, while making taxpayers fork over $55 million in tax-incremented financing (TIF) to DePaul University for a new sports stadium and $50 million in tax breaks to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which was also his top campaign contributor in the last election with a hefty $200,000 donation.