Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governorships. "Opposition to government spending is everywhere," notes Political Consultant Walter DeVries. "Voters are listening to what the candidates are saying, but I suspect they think it doesn't make a lot of difference who they elect." Voters do not care which party cuts the budget, as long as it is done...
...Connecticut's Democratic Governor Ella Grasso was also challenged by her Lieutenant Governor, Robert Killian, who said that he might consider a state income tax. Grasso countered that she would veto such a measure. She also pointed to three straight years of budget surpluses. She trounced Killian 2 to 1 and is favored to win in November against Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin...
...whipped around and pointed to bar graphs comparing Canada's reduced health costs to the ever-increasing rates of the U.S. In 1963, 4.3 per cent of the federal budget was spent on health care. Today it has risen to 12.7 per cent. In 1983 it will be 13.3 per cent and a "whopping" 9.7 per cent of the Gross National Product (GNP). Canada, on the other hand, managed to contain its expenditures on health care from 6.8 per cent of the GNP when their national health insurance plan was passed in 1968 to 7 per cent in 1978. Today...
...Today some who espoused that right want tocondition it-to condition it on many things over which the health care system has no control: the state of the economy, the budget deficit, oil embargoes--but human rights are not conditional, and a commitment to a conditional human right is no commitment at all," Kennedy said...
...final score was in, not one of the association's tax reform proposals was passed. Thomson's resolution demanding constitutional limits on state and federal spending garnered only ten votes (not surprisingly), and a proposal by Gov. James Hunt of North Carolina calling for major reductions in the federal budget did not even make it past the opening round of discussion...