When combined with the deleterious effects of congressionally imposed budget cuts, the impact of this amendment will be even more insidious.
Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays -- delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.
The shopkeepers were already upset over reports that a sales tax will be imposed in the budget next month.
The fight may not be resolved until lawmakers' self-imposed deadline for a budget deal in June.
Greek voters punished the major parties at the polls earlier this month for the harsh budget cuts imposed by the country's international lenders.
Now it could be argued that they did not get the outright victory they desired, still the coalition has been brutal thus far in the cuts imposed through the June 22 budget.
The Greek crisis cruelly exposed the EU's inability to police the budget-deficit limits imposed by the stability and growth pact, which is meant to underpin the single currency.
Only now that Germany and France (along with Italy and Portugal) look set to breach the budget-deficit limits imposed by the pact, does the EU look ready to admit defeat and delay the deadline by a couple of years.
Pressure is also mounting on the government to rescind or reduce the 20% budget cut over this parliament imposed on the police.
It has been a nuclear power for some time, but this has imposed a huge burden on its defense budget, not least in keeping the nuclear arsenal secure from terrorists.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg made it clear at his party's conference that he would only sign up to further cuts in the welfare budget if a wealth tax was imposed by the chancellor at the same time.
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The Secret Service, like every other agency, is confronted with significant budget cuts and had to make decisions about how those imposed cuts would affect their personnel.
The deteriorating state of public debt as off-budget spending swelled combined with institutional weaknesses and the rigidities imposed by the pegging of the peso to the US dollar, it found.
In an expansionary budget containing goodies for almost every industry, the government has imposed a windfall-profits tax on producers of palm oil.
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The budget includes more deficit-reduction measures to add to those previously imposed by Silvio Berlusconi's government.
It is a tempting notion for small businesses struggling with the tax increases and spending cuts imposed by Mario Monti's technocratic administration in an effort to reduce the budget deficit.
But much more is needed than the fragile discipline imposed by the Maastricht treaty and by the stability pact, such as binding constraints on budget laws of member states and institutions able to enforce them.
In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
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There is an irony in Mr Rutte's predicament: his government was the most strident in demanding budget cuts and reforms elsewhere, and yet has fallen apart over a more modest adjustment than those imposed on Greece and Spain.
Second, we include in the Budget 16 carefully targeted tax law changes that improve compliance while maintaining that important balance between the burden being imposed on taxpayers and our shared interest in collecting taxes owed.
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