Considering VAT increases, along with salary, pension and benefit cuts, some basic goods are becoming less affordable.

Moreover, Bush s proposals won t fix social security unless they are accompanied by drastic benefit cuts. For how could they?

Expecting China and India to make massive emission cuts for little benefit puts the Copenhagen meeting on a sure path to being another lost opportunity.

Why? It cuts fuel poverty, it cuts their bills, and it cuts carbon emissions at the same time.

This has been done in the US, where taxes have become less progressive, with tax cuts given to the winners those who benefit from both globalization and technological changes.

First, even if each individual debt holder benefits, he or she will benefit even more if everybody else cuts the face value of their debt and he or she does not.

Chinese Coal Cuts

Europe s Myopic Defense Cuts

Reduction in each band would be based on linear cuts, with developing countries subject to lower cuts (two thirds of the developed country cuts), with the element of progressivity across the bands with higher tariffs subject to deeper cuts.

Absent private spending, budget cuts will only depress tax revenues, requiring additional budget cuts, without end.

That means vetoing any extension of the Bush era tax cuts, and then working to enact the Obama tax cuts.

But real tax cuts also mean spending cuts and, as elections loom barely a year from now, it is too late.

Yoav Medan Ultrasound surgery healing without cuts

Medals attract money failure results in cuts.

Both McCain and Obama could leave future generations lumbered with the costs of major cuts in carbon emissions without major cuts in temperatures.

The decline in remittances, however, cuts both ways.

Mr. Nitya Nanda, Policy Analyst, CUTS International, India

It cuts across all areas of human activity.

As soon as he was re elected, Bush started to propose cuts in popular government programs, but his own party is rejecting those cuts.

If individuals were rational and well informed, they might conclude that they should not spend more, despite tax cuts, since the cuts are not real.

Bill Clinton continued those cuts in the 1990 s.

It now promises to make those tax cuts permanent.

Ninety five percent of its envisioned cuts never happened.

Governments can, of course, enforce public sector wage cuts.

As a result, budget cuts would be strongly contractionary.

The relentless cascade of austerity measures is taking a toll on the everyday life of Greeks, with social services being curtailed and even the affordability of basic goods taking a hit due to staggered VAT increases and salary, pension and benefit cuts.

First, because the cuts had to be credible that is, large and decisive the continuing absence of growth could be blamed on the insufficiency of the cuts.

Carbon emissions have kept increasing, despite repeated promises of cuts.

The Spanish government announces additional fiscal cuts and structural reforms.

It is less able, however, to withstand looming budget cuts.

Public support for spending cuts is also difficult to win.

Retirement benefit

Widow's benefit

Romney acknowledges that large spending cuts, along with the scheduled expiration of tax cuts at the end of this year, could throw the economy back into recession in 2013.

Extremely expensive cuts in carbon emissions could mean more malnourished people.

Fiscal policy should ideally focus on tax cuts and infrastructure spending.

Now, citizens are facing higher taxes and cuts to public services.

Yemeni netizens expressed their views about the electricity cuts via Twitter.

There were only 7,000 widowers receiving survivors' benefit half of them receiving the regular benefit and the other half, the combined benefit.

Merely setting a dollar (or pound or euro) target for budget cuts is far less effective, because the target can easily be revised and cuts reversed to avoid political pain.

At the end of 2002, 166,000 widows received survivors' benefit 95,000 received this benefit alone and another 71,000 were given the combined benefit.

Deferred retirement benefit

National Child Benefit

Indeed, these cuts perform poorly on the CBO s measure of budgetary effectiveness.

Enterprises could not sell their output, leading to production cuts and layoffs.