Those in the used-car market are advised to hit the lots sooner rather than later, as NADA expects prices to be softer in the first half of the year as consumers and businesses react to the expiration of the payroll tax reduction and the ongoing political wrangling over the debt ceiling extension and the federal budget sequester.
Was there any consideration when you put the budget together to either paying for some of the extension of policies, like the AMT or the Bush tax cuts, or not permanently extending them?
Democrats blasted Romney for supporting a student loan interest rate extension when he'd previously backed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposed cuts to the federal Pell Grant program.
On 28 June 2011 controversial M74 extension through Glasgow was opened to traffic - after coming in almost three times over the original estimated budget.
Meanwhile, Republicans in the House of Representatives are dropping a demand that any extension of a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans be offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.