The GOP says it would cut government spending to pre-2009 levels and cap future discretionary spending.
Tight budgets, for example, make it harder for the government to increase discretionary spending.
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Allowing taxes to rise and slashing discretionary spending would sharply reduce the deficit, all right.
Even in 1999, defense spending will drop 0.1% while domestic discretionary spending will rise 2.2 %.
The charge of the Appropriations Committee is to enact legislation related to discretionary spending.
If history is a guide, this could lead to cuts in consumer discretionary spending.
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President Obama is expected to call for a five-year freeze in some discretionary spending.
The first thing you can do is cut back on your discretionary spending.
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The CBO budget baseline assumes the impossible: No increases in discretionary spending for a decade.
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Taxation is a big issue and with economic uncertainty, people's discretionary spending could be curtailed.
But even that previous administration last year proposed bigger budget cuts than this from discretionary spending.
So what we put in place was a modest first proposal, including freezing non-security discretionary spending.
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Tax revenues are down, non-discretionary spending is up and budget deficits are back with a vengeance.
The President froze non-security defense -- non-security discretionary spending for a three-year period of time.
"The result is that the sectors which cater to discretionary spending are suffering, " he added.
The President has already signed into law over a trillion dollars in non-defense discretionary spending cuts.
First, the President proposed to hold growth in overall discretionary spending below the rate of inflation.
The Budget proposes discretionary spending caps as well as restraints on new mandatory spending.
And it will result in the largest discretionary spending cut in history, nominal terms.
One simple proposal would be to return federal discretionary spending back to its 2008 level.
Remember, the sequester cuts amount to eight percent of discretionary spending and 2.5 percent of total spending.
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This possibility is heightened by the recent economic downturn, which made consumers more cautious of discretionary spending.
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The biggest impact is likely to be on preparatory schools, as parents decide to delay discretionary spending.
They blithely take for granted severe cuts in discretionary spending on everything from policemen to air-traffic controllers.
Similar to last year, the Budget again holds overall discretionary spending growth below the rate of inflation.
The discretionary spending, the bills that Congress signs that you sign into law, that has increased 84 percent.
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The budget resolution would limit increases in non-defense discretionary spending to 2.9 percent through 2014, according to Conrad.
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The vast majority of economists agree that the problem when it comes to deficits is not discretionary spending.
What he signed into law last summer represented one of the largest cuts in discretionary spending in generations.
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