Word: spendings
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...years the economy will come back,” Handley admited. In that case, legislators will be able to lower taxes. This assumption is reasonable, but risky. Higher taxes will scare businesses from Connecticut, slowing the recovery. And when the economy rebounds, stuffed coffers will tempt legislators to spend even more...
...state should cut spending and keep taxes low. Does government spend to serve or serve to spend? On this question, too many legislators leave their answers blank...
When Congress passed the stimulus bill in February, it came as both good news and bad news to the Obama White House. The good: never before had an Administration had so much money to spend on voters in need - to rebuild public buildings, save jobs, weatherize homes and fund community health centers. The bad: rarely has the passage of a measure been accompanied by such skepticism about the government's ability to spend the money wisely or well. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...been set aside for tax cuts and continuing benefits to the poor and unemployed. The most visible part of the program, and the most politically explosive, is the roughly $152 billion for infrastructure investment, for which no one had a road map. In some cases, states and localities could spend those funds pretty much any way they liked. And that's where Biden's bloodhounds have been sniffing around...
...lobbying their host governments to pressure Sri Lanka into increasing humanitarian aid to Tamils. And since the war's end about six weeks ago, the most vocal and visible Tamil expats fighting for this cause have been the youth, raised outside Sri Lanka, apart from relatives they now spend much of their free time fighting for. (Read a brief history of the Tamil Tigers...