The Cuomo administration countered that the penalty represents a relatively small part of the district's total budget.
What matters here is not the total budget deficit but the primary one.
According to the draft budget every government department will have to make savings of 1.6% within their total budget.
But discretionary outlays, including defence, are less than 40% of the total budget.
At the University of Virginia, state funding has dropped to 5.6% of the total budget this year from 26.2% in 1990.
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The Commission does not deny that fraud occurs, but it says the scale is minute - around 0.09% of the total budget.
Germany is the largest contributor, providing about 20% of the total budget.
Non-security discretionary spending is less than a sixth of the total budget.
During much of the past two years, the Congress has been criticized for arguing about programs that make up almost insignificant slices of the total budget.
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That will still be among the largest research budgets in the drug business, and a third of the total budget of the National Institutes of Health.
The structure of the welfare budget suggests that serious reform must take on spending on the sick and disabled, which accounts for 24% of the total budget.
They contend that, but for significant infusions of foreign funding - "some 60 percent of CAIR's total budget, " the organization would not be able to stay in business.
Columbia University Medical Centre, for example, accounts for more than half of that university's total budget, while humanities receive almost no external federal funding, and social sciences precious little.
Flat tax proposals in the past were made at a time when total federal debt was relatively low and annual deficits were usually less than 20% of the total budget.
Indeed, the anti-tax California Taxpayers Association says that the General Fund (which accounts for four-fifths of the total budget) can be balanced merely by restraining the growth in spending to 4.2%.
The amount accounted for 27% of UNRWA's total budget.
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Overall municipal debt is relatively low and debt burden (the ratio of how much is paid on debt service relative to total budget) averages under 5% according to the most recent U.S. Census data.
In earlier periods when the federal debt was not so large and annual deficits were a much smaller percentage of the total budget the revenue and spending goals of a flat tax may have been much more feasible.
Congress would specify the total budget for which it is willing to be held accountable and divide it among agencies roughly in proportion to potential lives saved or some other metric for what is regarded as a regulatory benefit.
The upshot was the change now being enshrined in the 2000 budget: driven by the sudden improvement in the forecasts, both parties committed themselves in the course of just a few months to keeping the non-Social Security part in surplus, as well as the total budget.
In probably the most thorough regulatory budget, agency tallies would add up to a total regulatory budget paralleling the fiscal budget.
The Obama administration and Democrats point out that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated the health care law will reduce total annual budget deficits between now and 2021.
As a whole this system will consume 29 percent of the total national budget of JPY 220 trillion in fiscal 2011.
In comparison with the city's total arts budget of DM1.5 billion, if all federal subsidies are included, the sum is not huge.
Since the pay bill makes up about two-thirds of the total NHS budget, one obvious strategy is to clamp down on wage costs.
With individual member states covering the cost of the instruments on board, the total overall budget should emerge somewhere around the billion euro mark.
Last year the 27 EU member states' governments limited the total EU budget rise for 2011 to 2.9% - not the 6% that MEPs wanted.
But even these enormous sums do not buy much: railways account for 40% of the government's total transport budget but only 8% of the journeys made.
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