Those of us who lived through those budget years are hardly nostalgic.
They point to the tax-raising budget in 2002 that followed the giveaways in his pre-election budget four years ago.
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The German government approved a draft of financial plans that see Europe's largest economy achieving a balanced budget two years earlier than planned.
Providence, like many U.S. cities, is struggling to fill a hole in its budget after years of cuts in federal funding and dips in tax collections.
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You know, if there was a fall -- if there was a Hall of Fame for budget directors, then Jack Lew surely would have earned a place for his service in that role under President Clinton, when he helped balance the federal budget after years of deficits.
The Congressional Budget Office gives its baseline budget projections for fiscal years 2013 to 2023 in its February 5, 2013 Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023.
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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).
Well, let me remind you, we have 16 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate nearly in 30 years, the lowest percentage of people on welfare in 29 years, and the first balanced budget in 29 years, and the highest home ownership in history, and the lowest inflation rate in 32 years because we didn't squander money.
However, in the 1990s, the return of a booming economy allowed government spending cut-backs without harming the economy, which combined with a big surge in tax revenues from rising corporate profits, and capital gains taxes created by the explosive stock market of the 1990s, not only produced a balanced budget, but several years of large budget surpluses.
Virginia has enjoyed budget surpluses in recent years, but not in its transportation budget.
Remember, House Republicans have vowed to balance the budget within 10 years, entirely through spending reductions.
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It, with a modicum of spending restraint, will balance the budget in 10 years.
In other words, he always has to balance the budget in five years' time.
Our finance minister is glad that he gets no new debts for his budget in 3 years.
In my first year, we achieved the largest percentage increase in the VA budget in 30 years.
As chief of staff, Bowles helped negotiate the 1997 budget, the first balanced budget in 30 years.
Indeed, that score shows that the pro-growth effects of the plan would themselves balance the federal budget within 10 years.
As governor of Florida, I balanced the state budget for eight years in a row while cutting taxes every year.
Future entitlement obligations amount to tens of trillions and will overtake the budget in future years unless something significant changes.
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The plan also includes a promise to balance the budget within 10 years or less, as Gingrich has said explicitly in recent debates.
In order to balance the budget in 10 years, Mr. Ryan would cut spending from a projected 22.9% of gross domestic product to 19.1%.
Republicans said the plan did too little to reduce the deficit, especially compared with House Republicans' plan to balance the budget in 10 years.
The budget plan that Speaker Gingrich fought for so mightily with President Clinton in the 1990s in fact produced a balanced budget in 3 years.
David Cameron chose to be the first EU leader to meet the man chairing the summit which will set the EU's budget for seven years.
One city official just warned that if nothing is done, pension costs for non-uniformed city workers would consume one-third of the city budget within 20 years.
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What Congress should do is replace it with other spending cuts that put America on the path to a balanced budget in 10 years, without threatening national security.
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Rand Paul and Mike Lee would balance the budget in five years, eliminating four federal departments and reducing spending to its historic average level in the first year.
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When journalists asked this morning what room for manoeuvre Labour had to give concessions to the other parties in next years budget the answer came back - none.
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