The most recent estimate by the Congressional Budget Office for this year's sequester is that nondefense spending will be cut by 4.6% and defense spending will be cut by 7.9%.
Defence is being cut by 7%, but we're being cut by 20%, which is a massive amount.
The top tax rate was cut by only 13%, while the lowest rate was cut by one-third, 33%.
Managed-money accounts in silver cut their gross longs by 227 contracts and cut their gross shorts by 1, 034 contracts, which allowed the net-long to rise to 17, 296 contracts.
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Figures from the Campaign for Better Transport show that in 2011 central government cut the transport grant by 28%, while this financial year the operators' grant has been cut by 20%.
And as far as the arguments that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are making, I think it's important to explain to people that in order for us to balance the budget while exempting entitlements, no new revenues, you'd have to cut non-discretionary defense spending by 60 percent -- cut it by 60 percent.
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Another issue is finding the right tubing that is flexible enough to wind up on a spool but resilient enough to not bend or break, either from internal fluid pressure or by being cut by plants and rocks on the landscape.
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In the UK, the government's best estimates are that new nuclear power stations will cut our emissions by four percent some time after 2020, yet our binding target is a 34 percent cut, by 2020.
Apple not only benefits by getting a cut of 30% for every paid app, but also by getting a cut of 40% from advertising dollars for a free app.
Some of the 3, 600 Sure Start children's centres are being cut because the grant that funds them was cut by 11% in last year's emergency budget, and again in the comprehensive spending review by almost the same percentage.
Of course, if Congress does not extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, economic growth could be cut by as much as 1 percentage point.
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Speaking at the Scottish Parliament, Mr Swinney said his government's budget, funded by the Treasury, was being cut by about 8% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15, as Westminster ministers seek to cut the spending deficit.
But Philip Collins, a former speech writer for Tony Blair, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Cameron's analysis was "about 20 years out of date" and the plans were "effectively reinstating" the Schools Sports Partnership programme - set up by Labour, and cut by the Tories in 2010.
They cannot find a way to cut 1 percent from a budget that would have to be cut by almost 25 percent to be balanced.
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Even though markets had been pricing in some easing (a 25bp cut with a 65% probability), the decision to cut by 50bp surprised almost everybody.
There is a further tax cut of greater political symbolism, which is that corporation tax will be cut by one percentage point more than expected in April 2014.
The plan assumes, for example, that payments made by Medicare to doctors will be cut by nearly 25% in 2011.
Meanwhile, the number of people employed by the banking sector has been cut by a third, from 114, 000 before the crisis, and more redundancies are unavoidable.
The precious yellow metal was boosted by the somewhat surprising interest rate cut by the European Central Bank and by more safe-haven investment demand as the EU debt crisis drags on.
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On this particular day, though, I was only a few blocks into town when I spotted a tidy little hotel surrounded by a lawn that was being cut by a man with a pair of scissors.
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By 1982, inflation had been cut in half to 6%, and by 1983 it had been cut in half again to 3%.
But certainly having been defined in the first six months mostly by his tax cut and by the switch by Sen.
Replacing one million boilers with micro-CHP units by 2020 would cut emissions by about 2.1 million tons of CO2 by 2020.
Meanwhile, Government-owned Northern Rock cut its Standard Variable Rate by 0.1% on Monday, its first move after the Bank of England cut base rates by 0.25% 11 days ago, and more than a week after the chancellor said banks should pass on interest rate cuts to homeowners.
Since 2004 poverty has been reduced by half and extreme poverty has been cut by 70%.
The chances that cancer had already spread by the time it was diagnosed were cut by almost a third.
"Since 1998, every inter-meeting rate cut has been matched by a similarly sized rate cut at the ensuing meeting, " the note says.
Under the quota deal struck by ministers in December, cod catches will be cut by nearly half for 2001.
By 2009, the deficit is projected to be cut by more than half from its projected peak to just 1.4 percent of GDP, well below the 40-year historical average.
If you ask them to raise taxes by an inch to cut government by a yard, they will still say no.
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