Cuts in entitlements, not tax increases, would be the best remedy for the budget gap.

削减各种津贴而不是增加税收是解决预算差额的最好途径。

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By those standards, they should be chastened by the budget gap and the high unemployment rate.

按这些标准，他们应该受到预算缺口和高失业率的考验。

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Texas will be able to close its budget gap this year only through brutal cuts, now being negotiated.

德州今年只能通过大幅削减来弥补预算缺口了，这些削减眼下已在协商当中。

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But in Oakland, California it's a huge budget gap that has to be closed.

NPR: Economy Hurts California's Cities

But the council had to delay publishing budget papers amid a widening budget gap.

BBC: Richard Williams

Runaway health care entitlement costs are the prime driver of our long term budget gap.

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