We've already, in this budget, slated that in the out years we're going to reduce non-discretionary -- non-defense discretionary spending.
And in order -- if you just wanted to cut the deficit to balance the budget, only on non-discretionary -- or on discretionary non-defense spending -- so if you wanted to exempt out all the entitlements, exempt defense, you'd have to cut all those other things by 60 percent -- 60 percent.
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If the trigger had been balanced, if it had included not just cuts in defense and cuts in non-defense discretionary spending, but also revenue, the cuts would have been less deep in both non-defense and discretionary spending.
Tax revenues are down, non-discretionary spending is up and budget deficits are back with a vengeance.
Exports slowed faster than imports, a chunk of which are non-discretionary commodities and oil.
Japanese government revenues right now are insufficient to cover non-discretionary payments such as pensions and health benefits.
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Be prepared to support those parts of your product portfolio that are non-discretionary, or at least more basic.
Heading into the current downturn, almost half of states faced structural deficits as non-discretionary spending outpaced revenue growth.
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But still, this is a company that makes a non-discretionary product, where business gets better when people get sicker.
Another non-discretionary purchase we will all now be forking out more for.
To make matters worse, around two-thirds of federal spending goes on pensions or other non-discretionary items, points out Mr Velloso (see chart 2).
Indeed, if non-discretionary spending transfers to the regions, interest payments and so on is excluded, subsidies make up 51% of what is left, without even counting farm subsidies.
Recognize that this figure excludes all the other so-called non-discretionary payments (unemployment, food stamps, etc.) as well as everything else the government does including the military and Obamacare.
But yesterday several leading Senate Democrats said that these negotiations that we're talking about now for the CR need to be broadened to talk about things that are mandatory and not just domestic non-discretionary.
Broker used discretion in a non-discretionary account.
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Indeed, one recent study conducted for MedPAC showed that, all else being equal, supplemental coverage led to 33% more spending, largely in the form of elective outpatient procedures (as opposed to emergency or other urgent, non-discretionary inpatient services).
And as far as the arguments that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are making, I think it's important to explain to people that in order for us to balance the budget while exempting entitlements, no new revenues, you'd have to cut non-discretionary defense spending by 60 percent -- cut it by 60 percent.
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This case centers on a seven-month period in 2009 and 2010, at the beginning of which Claimant Stirling transferred a large sum of money to new, non-discretionary accounts with Respondent Dowley and his brokerage, all in cash or cash equivalents, with the intention of investing largely in equities, in order for her to profit from an expected upturn in the market.
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Total federal discretionary spending, as well as the subcategory of non-defense discretionary spending, declined from 1995 to 1996 in actual nominal dollars.
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So what we put in place was a modest first proposal, including freezing non-security discretionary spending.
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The President froze non-security defense -- non-security discretionary spending for a three-year period of time.
The President has already signed into law over a trillion dollars in non-defense discretionary spending cuts.
The budget resolution would limit increases in non-defense discretionary spending to 2.9 percent through 2014, according to Conrad.
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It would cap revenue (read: no over-taxation), but it would also freeze non-defense discretionary spending for a decade.
We're not here to see from 1995 to 2006 why non-security discretionary spending, conventionally speaking, has nearly doubled.
It creates a firewall that ensures that savings are gleaned not just from non-defense discretionary programs, but from defense.
But the President has already put forward substantial savings in health care entitlements, as well as non-defense discretionary savings.
As the next chart shows, non-defense discretionary spending as a percentage of GDP also is at a historically low level.
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The CBO also uses a historically low rate of increase of discretionary non-defense spending equal to the rate of inflation.
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That's why I'm asking you to adopt a freeze in non-security discretionary spending for the next three years, starting next year.
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