In July, he pardoned 19 convicted criminals, including several who had been exonerated, and in August called a special legislative session to consider reducing state construction costs in order to increase money for schools.
The French government unveiled a series of measures aimed at reducing the state pension-fund shortfall.
By reducing the state's role to that of setting the overall framework and providing a safety net, and by ensuring that every adult owns his or her own funded pension, the Tories hope to create a massive psycholgical shift in attitudes to saving.
The biggest nightmare for Labour is: what if the Coalition are right, and cutting the state, reducing benefits and implementing austerity succeed where growing the state did not succeed: in promoting growth?
He implemented a radical programme of free-market reforms, removing subsidies, privatising state-owned companies and reducing the role of the state in almost all spheres of the economy.
But as well as reducing demands on the state, we can and will increase the productivity of the state - through proper public service reform.
Reducing waste, reforming public services, reducing demands on the state.
They know now, just as they did in the old conditionality days, that if they want aid and debt relief, they have to sign up to reducing inflation, cutting state spending and privatising, among a raft of other policies.
It is radical social reform that will help us deliver long-term savings in public spending by reducing the demands on the state.
First, reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society.
First is more liberalisation, continuing the good work of the past 15 years, opening India's markets even wider to competition and reducing the role of the state in the economy.
Such an increase in the tax base would have the added benefit of reducing the fiscal stress of state and local governments caused by four years of high unemployment and abysmal economic growth.
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The reason that Britain's public finances do not face a pensions time-bomb is that, since the early 1980s, the Tories have been reducing the role of the state in pension provision and increasing that of the private sector.
Why that is not about trumped-up short-term efficiency savings or thoughtless crisis cuts - but is about long-term change, long-term change that involves reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society and long term change that means increasing the productivity of the state by reforming our public services.
The proposed budget was already super-austere, because inflation is high and oil prices low, reducing revenues from Mexico's state-owned oil company.
Indeed, a single income tax generated so much revenue in Colorado that one state lawmaker actually proposed reducing the rate 10 years after its implementation.
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Many governments have given tax privileges to pension funds as a means of encouraging savings and of reducing the potential burden on the state of provision for the elderly.
The team's priority now is to put the craft into "Point Rest State" - reducing fuel consumption so the craft has enough left to last months or years, giving scientists the time to decide how to proceed.
Such provisions, when enacted into law, result in a loss of tax revenues, thereby reducing the amount of revenues available for state (as well as local) programs.
But in developing countries there is the same need to focus the activities of the state on promoting growth and reducing poverty through investment in education and health care.
Are taxpayers and politicians being irrational or at least short-sighted in reducing the proportion of income used to finance state universities?
And many recent widows receive an income from their husband's pension scheme, reducing the need for extra money from the state.
The report suggests raising taxes but also stop attacking private companies, and reducing a ruinous subsidy on gasoline and to state-run companies.
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The nominal rates posted on the federal return are going down, but Congress is ceding less of the revenue to the states by reducing the credit that the executor can claim for state taxes paid.
Reducing taxes on production, investing money in the economy and optimizing state expenses.
In the short run, reducing government spending (in the U.S. at local, state, and federal levels) is deflationary in the short run.
But even putting that to one side, the rising indebtedness of the state more than offsets any progress by the private sector in reducing debts.
Saving energy and reducing emissions are important goals for the consumer electronics industry as well as the state.
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One frequent argument for legalization is that it will generate a fiscal windfall by reducing expenditure on marijuana arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration and by allowing the state to collect tax revenue on legalized sales.
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And as such licensing is often State, rather than nationally, based this will have the effect of reducing that labour mobility.
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