California is another place where businesses have come to view three years of budget uncertainty and huge pension liabilities (not to mention the state's already high taxes and complex regulatory regime) as an inducement to migrate elsewhere.
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At least he would reduce one entitlement and insulate the Wisconsin budget from Washington uncertainty.
Due to IT budget cuts and uncertainty regarding the economic recovery, many companies and consumers held back on spending in 2008 and 2009 leaving technology bellwethers like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Adobe worrying about when this spending would return.
The uncertainty over its budget, it is claimed, has contributed to cuts in the ambulance service - including a significant reduction in overtime payments to staff.
The U.S. Navy just issued a statement saying that they are going to be starting layoffs now in anticipation of both sequestration and uncertainty over a budget that may not be passed.
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Aerospace and defense stocks face an uncertain future with looming cuts to the Pentagon budget and the spiking yields show the uncertainty.
Despite uncertainty over the future defense budget and the possibility of sequestration, and after a recent scandal that led to the resignation of CEO-elect Chris Kubasik, Lockheed managed to deliver a decent fourth quarter on Thursday.
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And while the government think that the Budget will "lift the cloud of uncertainty" from the country, there is a feeling amongst some in Conservative ranks that they haven't yet made the political weather - that voters still don't really understand why the scale of the proposed cuts are necessary.
Uncertainty about the BBC World Service budget as the corporation prepares to take on full funding of the service is "unacceptable", MPs have warned.
After all, if uncertainty were the primary culprit, the right solution would be to cut a long-term budget deal with the White House, even at the cost of higher taxes on the wealthy, to remove uncertainty about future tax rates.
It recorded a large write-down as a result of uncertainty over the U.S. defense budget and spending cuts known as the sequester.
The Welsh Ambulance Service had been without a budget since April and the Welsh Liberal Democrats feared the uncertainty over money could have a knock-on effect on patients.
That uncertainty has spiked dramatically since the start of the budget showdowns in 2011.
The Labour-run council described its draft budget as "painful, but necessary" as it faces uncertainty over how much income it will receive.
That created "investor uncertainty" as people were not sure how much to budget for in the future, he said.
However, he said ministers faced challenges from the "continuing uncertainty in the global economic outlook" and the "tight budget settlement" from Westminster.
The biggest uncertainty is how all these breaks can possibly fit into the budget, particularly once the country gets hit with costs for the boomers' retirements.
Consumers hate uncertainty, so an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth.
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As if all that fiscal uncertainty were not enough, on March 1 the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act that were delayed by a bipartisan agreement at the beginning of the year are supposed to trigger.
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If uncertainty means resolving issues of taxes, business regulation, the deficit, the budget and the economy, nothing much has changed.
The uncertainty does not make sound business-sense as it makes it very difficult to budget and plan ahead, they said.
Firm action to tackle budget deficits may induce anxious consumers to save less (and firms to invest more) by lowering uncertainty about future tax changes.
The announcement comes as the Theatre Royal and other Newcastle venues face uncertainty over their funding, following a city council announcement that it plans to scrap its arts budget.
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