What better way than by handing out goodies to all and sundry on budget day?
On Wednesday 5 December - Budget Day - we will find out if their fears come to pass.
On the evening of budget day, India's commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), was plunged into darkness for hours by a power cut.
On Budget day, Mr Osborne said the UK government would enter into contracts with companies in the sector to provide certainty over relief.
Today BBC R4, 2nd July 1997 It's budget day and the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, is later announce a cut in VAT on domestic fuel.
It all centred on health and the morning after budget day.
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Meanwhile, a type of mortgage that was popular among first-time buyers during the housing boom has withered further, following announcements made by lenders on Budget Day.
Earlier in the week shadow local government secretary Caroline Spelman, accused chancellor Gordon Brown of trying to "bury" Sir Michael's report, by publishing it on Budget day.
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But, ultimately, Budget day is all about the Chancellor: Raising as much short term cheer for his party as possible and setting, or maintaining, some long term direction.
The UK's largest civil service union, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), has picked Budget Day - 20 March - to start its industrial action over pay and pensions.
Having wrong-footed the shadow chancellor last November, it became rapidly apparent on Budget day that George Osborne had moved heaven and earth to be able to do the same again.
But as that stagnating growth is being blamed on exports, and in turn on the weak eurozone, the Budget day story that could resonate louder still was being played out in Nicosia, Moscow and Berlin.
But, as I said at the start, at least a small part of me can't help thinking Mr Osborne will be a little bit grateful, when he stands up on Budget day, that Robert Chote has reminded everyone how independent he is, even if Downing Street does not feel that way today.
People who have to budget every day just to get by, they understand that's a big difference.
"It is a Groundhog Day Budget from a failing and out-of-touch chancellor, " he said.
Mr Obama, Mitt Romney and congressional leaders should prepare now to start budget negotiations the day after the election.
Watching what we spend on health care from a federal budgetary perspective will continue to increase, and it will encompass a greater percentage of our budget every single day.
Before Obama spoke, House Republican leaders slammed him for failing to produce a budget proposal the day before, which they said is a long-standing deadline to do so under federal law.
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But for the banks and perhaps for small businesses too, that FPC meeting could be rather more important than the budget on the following day (though, in theory, we will have to wait till March 27 to know what the FPC has ordained).
It's been a full-time -- and more than full-time -- job focusing on the day-to-day recovery (and) relief, making decisions about how we recover as many people as possible, making decisions about how to readjust the budget and then every day going to funerals and wakes, in some cases for personal friends.
Given the urgency, the emergency bill will doubtless have to be rammed through before Parliament rises for the Summer, on July 19, so something in the current programme, which includes the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget, an Opposition Day and the polishing off of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, will have to be ditched.
The chamber rejected two major amendments to the budget resolution earlier in the day.
The most recent call was on Friday, the day the automatic budget cuts began.
The walkout is part of a three-month campaign of industrial action and started with a strike on the day of the Budget.
On May 7th, a day before the budget, Fair Work Australia, a workplace tribunal, presented an explosive report after a three-year inquiry.
Since that day, Heritage budget almost quadrupled, Cato more than doubled.
It turns out that it was revised away by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the day after the Budget, when all of us were thinking about other things.
The day after the budget the government had to reduce increases in the price of petrol and urea (used for making fertiliser), because of growing oposition within its ranks.
The day after the Budget is traditionally when studious journalists look for hidden bombs in the many documents released alongside the Budget, which they didn't get a chance to read.
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