But Thomas Kahn, the top staffer on the House Budget Committee, notes that some legislators worry that such mechanisms undermine the democratic process by limiting the opportunity for amendment and debate.
He notes that in the coming budget crunch, municipalities will likely stiff insurers or bondholders before firing employees.
The city, he notes, has a balanced budget with conservative estimates of future revenue that are not dependent on growth in real estate taxes or land sales.
As Roland Nash, of Renaissance Capital, a Moscow investment bank, notes, the Russian government's budget will, even so, be much smaller than Morocco's.
But he also notes that his target relates to what the budget would be based on current policy, not today's budget adjusted for inflation.
He calls the plan advanced by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan "a good starting point, " but he notes that few of the spending cuts happen in the first decade of the plan.
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In 2010, she notes, the nine states that ban the practice altogether had budget shortfalls of 25% on average, compared to 24% in the 14 states that allow it for all public-sector employees.
Indeed, Linda Lim, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of Michigan Business School, notes that the country's puny savings rate, chronic budget deficits and high ratio of nonworking dependents to workers make it look more like a Latin American than an Asian nation.
Sexton notes that the athletics department generates 70 percent of its own operating budget.
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An Associated Press article this week notes that the city of Newark, NJ, staring into a budget abyss, sold 16 city buildings to developers and investors, including the Newark Symphony Hall and police and fire headquarters.
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"We have such a small budget that we have to focus on only a few technologies, " says Grundler, who notes that other carmakers are looking at the EPA's invention.
As Krugman notes, it should have been obvious to anybody that Part D would come in under budget, because most widely used brand drugs are going generic.
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