Cutting
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Deficit reduction in a depressed economy is the road not to recovery, but to contraction, because it means
cutting
the national income on which the government’s revenues depend.
Known as the North Korea of Europe until the early 1990s, when Albania abandoned its quixotic quest for autarky, it started
cutting
and sowing garments and shoes for Italian manufacturers, gradually evolving its own fully integrated companies.
Cutting
the deficit to 2% of GDP, for example, would cause the debt ratio eventually to reach 50%.
Deficit reduction requires
cutting
government spending, increasing revenue, or both.
Cutting
spending is made more difficult by the reductions in relative outlays that have already occurred.
As US President in the 1980’s, the conservative icon Ronald Reagan described his approach to fiscal policy as “starve the beast”:
cutting
taxes will eventually force people to accept less government spending.
As a result, some banks that suspect that their balance sheets will be revealed to be weaker than they have so far acknowledged are
cutting
back on lending.
Because the non-tradable sector in advanced economies tends to create more jobs, this model can lead to an employment problem (even if it is partly masked by
cutting
hours rather than workers).
The most important measures required
cutting
budget deficits, often at the cost of lowering public expenditures.
This requires
cutting
compulsory contributions to the public system, while maintaining benefit levels for current retirees.
This is helpful when people live at the margin – where
cutting
spending means foregoing food or medicines.
It constituted perhaps 30% of the world economy and formed the
cutting
edge of every high-tech sector.
Donald Trump’s incoming US administration, for its part, should focus on opening up competition, not just
cutting
regulations.
Likewise,
cutting
fiscal support (via government-directed bank lending) to zombie firms would free up fiscal capacity and enable resources to be redirected to new sectors that facilitate services and urban employment; but this would exacerbate – at least at first – today’s demand shortfall.
However, this outlook hasn’t yet taken root in the EU’s elite policymaking circles, where well-meaning economists and politicians often believe they are doing the right thing by balancing budgets and reining in spending, usually by
cutting
health, education, and infrastructure budgets.
Between 1999 and 2001, Argentina's central government had done an impressive job of
cutting
back its expenditures, net of interest, by 10%.
Saudi Arabia, for example, is raising taxes,
cutting
domestic subsidies, and shifting its foreign-aid paradigm away from grants and toward investments.
While Germany has a hefty trade surplus with the United Kingdom, the integrity of the EU’s single market matters more to Merkel and German business than
cutting
a sweetheart deal with the UK.
You cannot follow the model of a "modern" nation-state
cutting
across tribal boundaries and conventions, and then argue that tribal traditions should be applied to judge the state's human-rights conduct.
So, too, his plan to eliminate enough tax expenditures to offset the $5 trillion in revenue lost from
cutting
marginal tax rates by 20%, while refusing to say which tax loopholes he would close.
The performer explains that the deficit is all the fault of congress for not
cutting
spending and that the only way to tame the beast is to raise the budget deficit because “Congress can’t spend money it doesn’t have.”
Halting the
cutting
and burning of tropical forests, which are found almost exclusively in developing nations, is among the most readily achievable and effective possible steps to reduce carbon emissions.
Aviation, like defense, is the sharpest of the R&D
cutting
edges available to advanced countries, and regularly produces key technological breakthroughs.
Cutting
the umbilical cord in a relationship of aid dependency is never easy, and there is no reason to expect that it will be any different with Greece.
While China has kept its economy going by making investments in education, technology, and infrastructure, Europe and America have been
cutting
back.
This can be accomplished in two ways: sharply
cutting
the interest rate paid by Greece, or reducing the face value of the debt.
The panel concluded that the least-effective use of resources would come from simply
cutting
CO2 emissions.
The typical cost of
cutting
a ton of CO2 is now about $20, but the damage from a ton of carbon in the atmosphere is about $2.
So we need to reduce by roughly ten-fold the cost of
cutting
emissions.
Government can either spend more money itself, or try to stimulate private spending by
cutting
taxes or lowering interest rates.
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