The plan includes cutting farm subsidies and making modest adjustments to federal retirement programs.
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An end to OECD farm subsidies, however, would transfer money from town to countryside.
President Hollande, increasingly unpopular at home, cannot easily agree to farm subsidies being reduced.
Some of the programmes Mr Bush wants to cut, including certain farm subsidies, deserve cutting.
The largest single budget item remains farm subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy.
Since its tariffs are already low, America's main contribution to this round is to cut farm subsidies.
Free secondary education for all arrived in 1967, and after 1973 Irish farmers benefited from Europe's munificent farm subsidies.
The European Parliament has rejected campaigners' demands to tie the majority of farm subsidies to protection of the environment.
Similarly, Cambodia promised never to subsidise agriculture, even though America and Europe spend billions on farm subsidies every year.
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Russia is upping farm subsidies (at least until oil prices tumble again).
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It would cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants.
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Because of the U.S. Senate makeup, are farm subsidies hard-wired into the system?
African officials had been pushing for a timetable for the ending of farm subsidies at the meeting in Dakar.
The French have threatened to use their veto if farm subsidies are threatened.
This is the second time in two months that Brazil has won a case against a major country's farm subsidies.
To deal with the hideous cost of farm subsidies, Mr Abe has appointed an affable farmer's friend as agriculture minister.
Ms Merkel may also raise the Doha world trade talks, scuppered by a row this summer over American farm subsidies.
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The two biggest budget items, farm subsidies and regional aid, are both administered locally and regularly throw up fraud scandals.
EU, partly because of the prospect of a cut in farm subsidies.
The French were prepared to compromise because back in November they had won the crucial argument to leave farm subsidies largely untouched.
Argue the merits of farm subsidies with these people all you want.
In contrast to farm subsidies and the mortgage interest deduction, philanthropic donors do not, by definition, benefit materially or individually from their gifts.
Farm subsidies remained largely unchanged until passage of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act, when Congress replaced target price-deficiency payments with declining fixed subsidies.
American policies focus on military aid to Colombia and free-trade talks in which the United States refuses to include farm subsidies or anti-dumping measures.
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For now, the administration's actions to boost farm subsidies (albeit to levels still lower than in Europe) speak louder than lofty words about cutting them.
Other provisions in their new plan included curbing farm subsidies and increasing how much civilian and military personnel contribute to their health and retirement plans.
Rich-country farm subsidies and tariffs are outrageous by any rational measure.
There will always be farm subsidies as long as the U.S. has a legislative body, the Senate, in which North Dakota gets two senators just like California.
The decisions by MEPs and the Council (EU governments) to create more flexibility for farm subsidies were welcomed by some farming groups, but widely criticised by environmentalists.
Agriculture ministers leerily reached agreement on one part of the package, the cutting or capping of farm subsidies, that was supposed to have been resolved last month.
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