For its part, China has not increased spending, at least not by much, and has refrained from stimulus.
This is like indexing your transportation spending to gasoline prices and then saying a gas price spike has not caused your gasoline spending to rise in real terms.
And his spending has not gone up as much as the fundraising, so he's stockpiling cash.
Although corporate profits have weakened sharply this year, corporate spending has not (see chart).
In fact, spending has not been below 18 percent of GDP since 1966.
One is education, where Panama's spending has not yielded good results.
It is one of the few EU budgets where the largest share has not gone on agriculture spending, although this is in second place for the 2010 budget.
Increased spending has not decreased poverty.
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It is true that consumption has fallen as a share of GDP, but that is because investment and exports have grown even faster, not because spending has been weak.
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Republicans want to lower taxes and entitlement spending but not Pentagon spending (of course) and as history has shown, not deficits.
He intends the cap to cover all campaign-related spending, not just spending after an election has been called.
Boehner repeated his past assertion that the GOP-led House has offered proposals to replace the forced spending cuts while the Democratic-led Senate has not, as well as his party's opposition to any increased tax revenue to offset the forced spending cuts.
Investment spending has certainly not shown a dramatic response to these historically low rates.
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But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending.
But since oil revenues pay for around half of the government's budget, this has not prevented cuts in welfare spending.
Aso said late Tuesday that he plans to submit an extra budget to parliament to finance stimulus spending but has not disclosed a price tag.
Though Lula has won praise from investors for honouring Brazil's public debt, critics point out that he has done so not by cutting other spending but by collecting record levels of tax.
Rather than try to settle this impossible question, let me concede to those who wish to slash defense spending that history has not dealt kindly with geopolitical superpowers that have overextended themselves militarily and fiscally.
Because the competition has concentrated on risk selection, it has not had the desired bracing effect on medical providers, so health spending has kept on growing.
If our logic is not that high consumer spending has to return to buoy the economy what is it?
You might not call that Plan B: after all, he has not actually reversed any of the big spending and tax decisions of summer 2010.
Nick Clegg has insisted the coalition will not make future spending cuts "on the backs of the poor" and urged the Conservatives to back a "wealth tax".
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It is complex, inefficient, unfair, and it is the biggest tax in a federal revenue system that has not come close to paying for federal spending for more than a decade.
As spending on police, prosecutors and prisons has steadily climbed in the past decade, increasing the number of people charged and imprisoned, spending on indigent defence has not kept pace, overwhelming an already hard-pressed system.
It has not addressed English concerns over the West Lothian question or the Barnett spending formula that has seemed to favour the smaller nations.
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Spending more money is not the impressive thing that KIPP has managed to do and that public schools should learn from, but spending the money well.
It is not true that lowering government spending has a tendency to increase investment.
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The government expects to meet this foreign aid target by next year, but has opted not to enshrine its commitment to aid spending in law.
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