Word: draconianism
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...struggle over the fiscal 1983 budget, the first version of which is due to be submitted next month, is already under way. Stockman has been urging draconian cuts in domestic programs, perhaps so Reagan can later ask for lesser, though still hefty, reductions without seeming hardhearted. Cabinet officials have begun to declare their dismay publicly and most are taking their protests to the President instead of acquiescing to Stockman's demands. Congress also is almost certain to balk. Says Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a savvy Republican on the House Appropriations Committee: "We'll not see a repeat next...
...flung highway system is in disrepair. Despite such cutbacks, a deficit of at least $75 million in this fiscal year's state budget looks likely. But forced austerity is not universal. California's state legislators have seen fit to spare one group from the draconian reductions: themselves. While the expenditures in real dollars on social services have decreased, the money for the legislature has doubled since 1975 and ballooned by a third this year alone. California's assemblymen and senators spend more on their own care and feeding than lawmakers in any other state...
...billion more in reductions will be needed for 1983. Even the Defense Department has been instructed to prepare a list of possible cuts. Says Meese: "No program is immune." Despite the public outcry, the presidential counsellor claims "the cuts so far have been relatively minimal, not by any means draconian...
...required to determine just what they contain. Some provisions, though potentially important, escaped national attention during the debate (see box). Moreover, in the Democratic-controlled House, after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable hand-scrawled passages and some outright errors. Said a frustrated House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill: "Nobody knows what's in their bill...
...time is one of governmental austerity in Massachusetts, where a tax-capping measure is forcing draconian cut backs. Yet Governor Ed King has asked for a 29% increase in funding for the doorkeepers. Jokes Voke of the crowded doorsills: "If they keep putting more people on, they won't have any place to stand...