Investor demand for a higher dividend yield implied a fear of very subdued dividend growth, or even cuts in payouts.
Further tax cuts or even an extension of the current cuts will not push more money into the economy.
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But we learned to identify programs that are so important to our core mission that they must be spared from cuts or even provided additional funding.
It was not tax cuts or even spending increases that caused most of the deficit, but the appallingly low rate of economic growth over the past 10 years.
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"So next year we would be starting from a much lower base and have to make even deeper cuts or demand bigger increases in council tax, " he said.
But the White House knows that at this stage of the game, it's not about war talk, tax cuts, or even big fund-raising dollars -- now, it's all about voter turnout.
Given the assessments by sober defense analysts and according to other, private, reports from Capitol Hill there is no reason to think that Boehner is bluffing about having the support he needs to take the Sequester or barter it for even better cuts.
With actually better benefits all paid through private savings, investment and insurance, there is no need or even place for Social Security benefit cuts, even if they were politically possible.
What we have heard in just a few days is a lot of different points of view not just from Republicans, but sometimes from the very same Republican in a matter of hours or days about whether or not they even support giving tax cuts to the middle class here in America.
The parameters for the coming budget debate are clear: Substantial cuts in services under an Obama White House or an historic remake of the safety net and even deeper cuts under Republican government.
And how concerned at all is the President that the Republicans could retaliate by withholding or by resisting compromise on things like extending the payroll tax cuts for the full year, or perhaps even harden their opposition, their resistance to further nominations?
And Democrats would rather see cuts in non-defense discretionary spending rather than in Social Security or Medicare, even if that means many of their favorite Federal programs will face cuts.
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The public may decide the Republicans are the ones being reasonable, that the president's proposed cuts are not big enough or even that the debt ceiling shouldn't be raised anyhow.
Only last week the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) pointed out that restricting inward migration would mean either even bigger cuts to public services or hefty tax rises to pay for an ageing population.
He says he won't even sign a bill cancelling those cuts, or letting him do less harm, unless Republicans also agree to raise taxes again.
It could have been the layoffs, pay cuts, poor job market, struggling economy or even the disillusionment of the professional world.
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Across-the-board extensions of the tax cuts, even if only for a year or two, are the best way to sustain the U.S. economic upturn and to avoid a European-style crisis.
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And we couldn't get a Republican to stand up and say, we'll raise some revenue, or even to suggest that we won't give more tax cuts to people who don't need them.
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Or perhaps some future budget deal will rely even more heavily on spending cuts (though that seems pretty unlikely as long as Democrats have some say in the matter).
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The new HHS payment cuts will be finalized in a week or so, and even some Democrats are protesting that they are too much too fast including Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, who designed the original cuts.
This cuts both ways: Sooner or later, everyone makes mistakes, even evil genius types.
Even if it achieves those goals, or rather because it will enact such draconian cuts, the Greek economy is expected to sink deeper.
And I think that what I talked about in answer to an earlier question is that, look, we recognize that there is an enormous debate, a big conflict between the President and the Republican leadership in particular over whether or not we need to extend and, in some plans, give even greater tax cuts to the top 2 percent of American earners, the most well-to-do Americans.
Or how to do some accounting sleight of hand where spending cuts in one area become even bigger increases elsewhere.
Anaesthetic is rarely used and the cuts are sometimes made with the most basic of tools such as razors or even pieces of glass.
Even recently, efforts to control costs within compliance programs have revolved around staff cuts or reassignments, rather than engaging in a true effort to identify and implement efficiencies.
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Another problem is that even if voters could somehow be convinced to support big cuts, raising taxes (or cutting spending) significantly right now could thrust the fragile economy back into recession.
You'd never know it from reading the mainstream media or listening to most economists, pundits, Democrats and even some GOP politicos, but the Bush tax cuts passed in May 2003 have been a fantastic success.
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