In contrast, while across-the-board toughness does little to suppress sales of long-established drugs, smart enforcement can be effective at controlling the violence and other toxic side-effects of drug markets.
Onto that, Democrats would like to add an extension of expiring unemployment benefits and a delay in across-the-board spending cuts while negotiations on a broader deficit reduction plan slips into next year.
ACCURACY -- While opposing across-the-board tax relief, Mrs. Clinton has pushed for limited tax cuts, including those mentioned in the commercial, that promote certain social goals.
While Sanders supports across-the-board expansion of benefits, Clinton has come out in favor of targeted increases. .
"We will continue to work to fulfill our mission to enforce the law to protect our nation's miners, while taking the across-the-board cuts required by law under sequestration".
While he has condemned across-the-board austerity measures for deepening Greece's economic troubles and defeating the overall goal of mending the nation's finances, Mr. Stournaras has also long insisted that the only way Greece can get back on its feet is to pursue the types of unpalatable structural reforms that Greece's lenders are pressing on the nation.
WASHINGTON — The Senate, in a predawn vote two hours after the deadline passed to avert automatic tax increases, overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday that would allow tax rates to rise only on affluent Americans while temporarily suspending sweeping, across-the-board spending cuts.
While he avoided proposing across-the-board tax increases, the governor said he wanted to raise taxes on health insurers, a cost likely to be passed on to the public, and to extend the 5-cent deposit now charged for soda and beer to bottled water.
Their proposals also attracted across-the-board support, while Florida's largest teachers' union opposed the state's application.
*The Democrats offer modest, focused tax cuts to help middle-class families, while the Republicans call for an across-the-board income tax cut to stimulate the economy.
While Mr. King does not expect across-the-board wage increases, he said the automakers should improve their profit-sharing formulas, something some auto executives have indicated a willingness to consider.
