Pageonce makes it extremely easy to track your cash balance, bills, investments, and other budget items.
In six years, says Mr Kitagawa, 800 of the prefecture's 3, 300 budget items have disappeared.
Its budget deficit is running at an estimated 8% of GDP (including off-budget items).
Within 20 years Medicare outlays, left unchecked, will crowd out all other federal budget items except defense.
The two biggest budget items, farm subsidies and regional aid, are both administered locally and regularly throw up fraud scandals.
It also meant juggling budget items in euros, pounds, kunas and kronas.
In the short term, reining in payroll costs one of the few budget items over which the federal government has plenty of discretion is vital.
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What can our government do to help limit the damage from this great and inevitable problem of health care expenditures and increasing need for medical care, given the almost unspeakable reality that if left unchanged, Medicare expenditures will soon crowd out all other federal government budget items in the decades to come?
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If inflation is lower, then the growth in these budget line items is slower.
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So I think budget line items and names of things scale easily, but principles scale hard.
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Granted, these are not budget line items that are easily swapped in for each other, but a tie-in to obesity and diabetes may just make tackling air pollution more economically viable.
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Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, said he appreciated Obama's promise to include disaster spending and the war in the new budget, instead of moving the items "off budget" to make the bottom line look better.
But the budget does include items that become assets and depreciate slowly over time as expenditures, so hopefully the deficit isn't as bad as some say.
Moreover, they note that much of the budget has gone on items of dubious utility and taste.
Aaron Marshall, Divided Ohio House passes budget full of cuts on heels of rosy revenue news, Plain Dealer (summarizing key items in the House budget).
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Consider ways of redirecting some of the lower-value items in your budget to community or social activities.
She's a fan of the company's "Red Box" holiday campaign, for which it's putting a large advertising budget behind 20 to 30 items.
Each drove the other crazy and, outside of expenses necessary for survival, they couldn't agree on any other line items in their budget.
Buyers can almost think of it like a game: They choose options to build their dream homes, then add or delete items as the budget permits.
But the opposition, he says, will vote for some of the items in the budget, such as the rise for minimum pensions and aid to the south.
When the administration unveils its fiscal 2010 budget Thursday, the key items to look for will be how the White House proposes to handle the ballooning costs of entitlement programs--Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security--and how it will offset the recent stimulus funding.
Creating a content marketing budget line item could save you a substantial amount of money on other line items that have eaten up your budget in the past.
In Mie Mr Kitagawa has introduced a system to evaluate the cost- effectiveness of major items in the prefectural budget.
There have been some suggestions up on the Hill as recently as this morning that while the talks on the budget have centered mostly on discretionary items so far, some of them -- some people have wanted to move to taxes.
The new mantra for the latest crop of pillagers is I never voted for various Republican measures, including the 2001 tax cut, 2003 tax cut, Medicare Part D, cost of troops for Iraq and Afghanistan, six years of emergency appropriations to cover items never mentioned in budget, etc.
The budget for the first three months was very tight: counting in only the items we really have financed, we had a central-government budget deficit of about 1.5% of GDP.
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The February 25th Nihon Keizai Shimbun helpfully summarized the major differences in spending items between the DPJ and LDP budget proposals.
People support raising taxes as part of deficit reduction by a 2-to-1 margin over the Republican Tea Party position that the deficit must be reduced only by spending cuts, most of that targeted towards liberal causes such as education and even small items like the National Public Radio budget.
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