It reports on the state of the public finances and assesses whether the government is likely to achieve its goal of balancing the UK's budget within five years ('balancing the budget' is where spending matches the amount received from things like taxes).
Some reduction in the estate tax is nearly certain to be part of any 1997 budget-balancing deal, and it is possible that relief will be granted even if no budget compromise is reached.
He originally billed himself as a non-threatening conservative more interested in budget-balancing and job creation than in social or cultural matters.
He helped to scupper the bipartisan budget-balancing plan of the Bowles-Simpson commission, which would have raised revenue by eliminating tax loopholes.
These tax cuts not only make the task of budget-balancing harder over the next five years, but store up bigger problems for later on.
Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, continue to emphasize budget-balancing above all else.
This will only occur if they can sell more, which will only be accomplished if we end this budget-balancing foolishness and increase the deficit and debt.
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Some may argue defense should fall slower than entitlements in any budget-balancing move, but past experience suggests it will fall faster in the absence of urgent threats.
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In a bid to win party support for the plan, Gingrich met with House GOP freshmen, a group that has throughout the negotiations insisted on a seven-year budget-balancing deal or nothing.
Shultz conservatism is not dour, budget-balancing conservatism.
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Amidst the budget rhetoric, economists say balancing the budget would prove a much easier task if either side had the political courage to put two of the biggest ticket items -- defense and Social Security -- on the table.
Balancing the budget is simple so long as politicians increase spending at a slower rate.
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Both houses of Congress have proposed balancing the budget by unspecified future spending cuts.
In reality, debt-ceiling votes merely perpetuate the illusion that balancing the budget is easy.
But balancing the budget alone would not be sufficient to spur new job creation.
Republicans have been better at pushing for tax cuts than at balancing the budget.
Jerry Brown claims his massive retroactive tax increase on upper-income Californians is balancing his budget.
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Under my plan, we will establish a clear goal of balancing the budget by 2020.
The tax collections today help Congress brag that it is balancing the budget.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have largely avoided taking a serious approach to entitlement reform and balancing the budget.
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Politicians cannot be trusted to resist the temptation of balancing the budget by underfunding defined benefit plans.
Balancing a budget is hard work, particularly for a country with the largest budget in the world.
It's energy and trade, the right kind of training programs, balancing our budget and helping small business.
Monetary reform has the power to turbocharge economic growth, creating jobs for voters and balancing the budget.
In balancing the budget, this Administration has controlled Federal spending well beyond the record of its predecessors.
Such booming economic growth would produce surging revenues that would make balancing the budget so much more feasible.
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"Balancing the budget should be viewed as an opportunity to have economic growth in this country, " he said.
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And he has failed to cut public spending to keep his promise of balancing the budget by 2012.
But Mr Clinton has proved his sensitivity to these dangers by signing welfare reform and balancing the budget.
In the past, Republicans have criticized the administration for attempting to defer the political pain of balancing the budget.
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