| The proposed tax cuts, to be financed by the current budget surplus, might help. |
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| The cheery optimism that produced those rosy budget surplus forecasts of yesteryear is long gone. |
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| The idea, if such deals are initiated, is to use a part of the budget surplus to finance them. |
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| Given that it is the only G8 country running a budget surplus, Canada's foot-dragging is particularly blameworthy. |
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| Instead he is modeling himself on the party's alchemist who rebuilt the welfare state and ran a budget surplus in a time of penury. |
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| The £21 billion projected budget surplus morphs into a £37 billion deficit. |
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| In 2003, a small cash budget surplus was recorded, but that was achieved largely through accumulation of arrears. |
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| At the administrative level, we ended the year with a small budget surplus, thereby indicating our good financial health. |
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| A mayor with a large budget surplus can carefully reduce taxes to make his city more attractive. |
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| The development of economic activity swelled the general government budget surplus, despite some acceleration in social spending. |
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| In 2001-02 the federal government recorded its fifth consecutive budget surplus the first time this has happened in 50 years. |
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| Is it fair to say, as claimed by the IMF representative in Moscow, that the dwindling budget surplus is tied to Russia's weak fiscal policy? |
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| This bill will not stop the federal government from once again cooking the books so that the budget surplus looks smaller than it is. |
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| But even this lightened burden will require the government to crank out a larger budget surplus. |
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| Prime Minister Zapatero rebutted that his government was willing to use a budget surplus to revive the economy. |
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| The vanishing budget surplus, campaign-finance reform and the rest have come and gone, leaving not a wrack behind. |
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| Overall, the budget surplus appears to be strongly correlated with economic growth. |
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| There is a strong body of economic thought that says cutting taxes when a government is running such a healthy budget surplus is the best way to sustain economic growth. |
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| To speed up growth, Berlin was urged by the EU commission on Wednesday to spend some of its budget surplus and adopt expansionary policies. |
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| With such a massive budget surplus, the government could have done so much more. |
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| This has sometimes resulted in a budget surplus, as new members join during the course of the year when the budget has already been approved. |
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| In the case of the budget surplus option, the debt reduction could either be a down payment on ensuring target achievement or it could be an adjustment to that target. |
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| Now, Denmark also has an actual budget surplus because those who exchanged their redundancy notices for wage packets also began to pay tax instead of drawing benefit. |
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| Just before Christmas, Osborne promised a budget surplus of £23bn by 2020 – thus opening himself up to the charge of being a deficit nutter and a mad shrink-the-stater. |
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| In addition, total benefits and costs usually added up to less than one hundred, indicating that the system has generally been in budget surplus throughout the study period. |
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| If the economy does start to recover later this year or next, the supposedly ruinous disappearance of the budget surplus will have had a lot to do with it. This is not to say that everything is hunky dory in budget-land. |
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| For 2007, current information suggests that the government plans to maintain a budget surplus, but there appears to be some risk of a fiscal loosening. |
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| King Mswati III's corrupt and nepotistic regime wobbled. A year later the little landlocked kingdom, almost totally surrounded by South Africa, is expecting a budget surplus. |
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| Mossialos et al.198 reported on the United Kingdom experience of fundholding, which employed both: rewards for a budget surplus and penalties for overspending. |
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| Lastly, expansionary discretionary shocks, like all economic policy shocks, have delayed effects, weakening the strong contemporaneous correlation between growth and budget surplus induced by the automatic stabilizers. |
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| Icelanders will assure you that their economy is really as fit as a fiddle, and it is true that the country does produce a tidy budget surplus. |
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| Over the past thirty years, Scotland contributed a relative budget surplus. |
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| The federal government ran a budget surplus. |
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| In view of the present strong growth of the economy and the possibility of overheating, any revenues received over and above those anticipated in the 1998 budget should be used to raise the budget surplus. |
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| The recent cuts to programs such as literacy, the social economy and youth employment, among others, during a time of budget surplus, cannot help the fight against poverty. |
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| John Hawksworth, head of macroeconomies at PricewaterhouseCoopers, argues that the budget surplus is likely to be larger than the Treasury estimates by the spring. |
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| The plan includes working with wealthy alumni of LSE to make large contributions, increasing the annual budget surplus, and launching a new, widescale alumni donor campaign. |
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