Innovation is our special sauce and our best hope for helping solve the federal budget deficit.
And, sooner or later Congress will have to rein in the federal budget deficit.
Slowing the growth rate of health care costs will prevent disastrous increases in the Federal budget deficit.
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M. (pictured with Rivlin above), are expected to release a plan to cut the U.S. federal budget deficit.
In buying such bonds these governments are, in effect, underwriting the large US Federal budget deficit as well.
For three years now, the federal budget deficit has been running around 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
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Some House Republicans are concerned it will add to the federal budget deficit.
Believe it or not the federal budget deficit peaks by year-end and wends its way lower as tax receipts pick up.
New jobs will produce taxes, which will reduce the federal budget deficit.
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In exchange for much-needed entitlement spending reform, wealthy Americans may be asked to pay more to help bring down our federal budget deficit.
Unsurprisingly, given the massive federal budget deficit, this date is much later: May 17, reflecting that government spending now consumes 38% of national income.
Within the next few years, Washington is going to have to get serious about trimming the federal budget deficit to avoid a debt crisis.
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The 40-year-old, seven-term congressman remains the lone member of Congress to put forth a plan to reduce the U.S. federal budget deficit and debt.
Not even the relatively good news of a declining federal budget deficit or the impending bad news that Congress has not resolved the rising costs of Medicare.
As inflationary pressures build, as QE2 ends, and as we face an explosion of debt due to the Federal budget deficit, interest rates are likely to move up.
Another is that with the federal budget deficit mounting, tax rates probably aren't going any lower and could soon head higher, making Roth conversions even more attractive now.
The federal budget deficit follows at 8 percent, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at 6 percent, education and terrorism tied at 5 percent, and energy policy at 2 percent.
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As a raw number, the U.S. federal budget deficit has actually been on the decline for the past few years. (Though as a percentage of gross domestic product, it has fluctuated around 9-10%).
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At the time, this was considered a victory for the highway lobby, since Congress had been allowing unspent money to accumulate in the Trust Fund to make the federal budget deficit look smaller.
These people see the federal budget deficit, the huge debt burden and the risk of a stagflation-type environment of low growth and high inflation, and cannot understand how investors could be piling into bonds.
One thing that practically everyone on both sides of the aisle in Washington seems to agree on is that the sequester cuts that have now officially begun are not the best way to reduce the federal budget deficit.
But President George W. Bush has pledged to halve the federal budget deficit, avoid tax increases and reform the tax system all at the same time--all promises he's likely to repeat in tonight's State of the Union address.
We increased the loan guarantees in the federal -- in our current federal budget deficit to build more of these facilities to strike that balance and also to create -- begin to create a market for cleaner energy sources through comprehensive energy legislation.
Those of us over age 50 remember that the outbreak of inflation in the 1970s led to record high interest rates and a wrenching recession that saw a four percentage point increase in the unemployment rate and a tripling of the federal budget deficit between 1979 and 1982.
The impact on the overall federal budget and deficit reduction is miniscule, but the meaning of cuts to local businesses in and around treasured landmarks that host nearly 300 million visitors a year is all too real.
Absent major reform, the bloated federal budget and the deficit will continue to grow in the coming years.
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Thus, the Federal budget averaged a deficit of about 3.4 percent of GDP.
To make serious cuts in the Federal budget, reduce the deficit, without raising taxes, those programs would have to be cut severely.
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