By reducing primary expenses, then reducing taxes.

But even the International Monetary Fund argued that contractions, such as cutbacks in government spending, were just that contractionary.

Most of the pain is deferred, which is precisely why such cuts are politically attractive.

Almost half of the stimulus simply offsets the contractionary effect of cutbacks at the state level.

Immediate debt restructuring on a grand scale, biting the bullet and accepting a few painful years of retrenchment.

Overhauling Secretariat structures and processes to reduce duplication, waste, and irrelevance?

In contrast, QE3 will be associated with a fiscal contraction, possibly even a large fiscal cliff.

At present, the US accounts for half of all global military expenditures, but cuts are due.

Noting that the Government of the Territory continues to take steps to increase revenue and decrease government expenditure,

Owners of grocery stores throughout America are worried that cuts will lead to reduced expenditures of consumers.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that almost two thirds of the Ryan budget s spending cuts would come from such programs. Romney offers few specifics, but simple arithmetic shows that his plan would require even deeper cuts in these programs than Ryan s plan would.

Romney offers few specifics, but simple arithmetic shows that his plan would require even deeper cuts in these programs than Ryan s plan would.

To dampen the additional inflationary pressures implied by a weaker rupee, more aggressive fiscal retrenchment is needed.

Indeed, it is nonsense to think that cuts in government spending should be avoided in the short run in order to lower the chance of a recession.

A dramatic cost cutting goal was set, scientists went to work, and the targeted breakthrough was achieved on time.

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The loss went well beyond the cutback in military expenditures, overwhelming the civilian industrial and agricultural sectors.

Thus, they appear unable to explain their new rationale for the spending cuts that they are now announcing.

The most important measures required cutting budget deficits, often at the cost of lowering public expenditures.

Unfortunately for the Tories, neither case for stimulative spending cuts fits Britain s predicament today.

They also reject the negative effects of the policies of cuts and they demand a series of changes in the European Union.

After all, the first effect of the expenditure cutbacks is a further decline in income, and with it profitability of investment.

These revenue losses could be offset by curtailing so called corporate tax expenditures deductions, credits, and other special tax provisions that subsidize some economic activities while penalizing others and broadening the corporate tax base. Both President Barack Obama s plan for business tax reform and the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Both President Barack Obama s plan for business tax reform and the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Depressing economic activity further through higher taxes and reduced government spending would cause offsetting reductions in tax revenue and offsetting increases in transfer payments to the unemployed.

Hence, funding for public health has been a tough sell in good economic times, and is one of the first targets for retrenchment.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that almost two thirds of the Ryan budget s spending cuts would come from such programs.

But, rather than helping, the rush to budget cutting is reversing earlier recovery efforts.

The Bush administration's (admittedly wavering) commitment to fiscal prudence means that much, perhaps most, of the war costs will be offset by expenditure cuts elsewhere.

There are two ways to reduce the government s health care outlays reduce the amount of health care the government buys, or reduce the cost of health care.

So, even as economic conservatives demand spending cuts, there are strong forces pushing in the other direction.

Any semblance of fiscal prudence would go out the window, with cuts in health, welfare, and education spending being reversed.

Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.

But we can t, instead what is offered is a hollow vision of the common good that consists merely in successive rounds of cuts in state expenditures.

And widening interest rate spreads on government bonds do not bode well, either, as this will quickly lead to pressure for further spending cuts.

At the other end of the scale was Canberra, hit by government spending cutbacks, where prices rose by only 1.4 per cent through the year.

Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad. Reducing the deficit by cutting funds for education, infrastructure, and research and development is akin to trying to lose weight by cutting off three fingers.

Reducing the deficit by cutting funds for education, infrastructure, and research and development is akin to trying to lose weight by cutting off three fingers.

Reversing the trend would require a return to robust growth substantial cuts in public expenditure and a more dynamic European environment.

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So plan B, always a plan B.

For the moment, most Americans seem to be going along with Republican arguments that it is better to close the budget deficit through spending cuts rather than tax increases.

Defense cuts are also happening at a time when Europe, for the first time in modern history, has been overtaken by Asia in terms of total defense spending.

If all this leads people to conclude that social justice is being sacrificed to profits, cuts in public expenditure harden that conclusion even more.