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State and local budgets can be corrected by small changes in the relative growth rates of spending and tax revenues, rather than by jarring policy initiatives.

That comes so late in the year, it's probably not going to have any effect on this year's budget. A lot of it also depends on how many games we'll get next year, but certainly the increased revenue will be a good cushion.

Tom Daschle

Our tax cut has to fit in within a responsible budget,

Overall, it's a very good budget. It's a 6 percent to 7 percent increase. Considering what other states are doing, it's substantial.

Overall, it's a very good budget, especially looking at his proposal for teacher recruitment and retention.

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town, ... Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

It is a very moderate hike and investors had factored in an increase before the presentation of the budget.

I think it's particularly important as all the defense budgets around the world come under pressure that we have a balance.

It is not necessary or even possible for us to massively increase the defense budget,

It is more difficult to get public funds for sports facilities. State and local budgets are strained, services are being cut, taxes are being raised.

Eric Johnson

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

Late this summer we'll be going into union discussions. That contract expires Nov. 30, so we'll need to pull that stuff together. And then we've got budgets to work on. There's going to be quite a few key administrative things that the new director is going to have to deal with pretty much from the get-go.

I teach English, but I also coordinate the honors program. I told them that and they were devastated. They decided they would like the honors program to take that on with whatever extent we could with no budget.

It does seem that there needs to be some sort of a fiduciary watchdog over (the commission's) budget. These are public funds and need to be handled prudently.

Lisa Anderson

I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in advance, ... A lot of the fall foliage travelers are seniors. Because their budgets are impacted more dramatically, I don't think they'll be traveling as much.

Frankly, the September decline was somewhat surprising, considering that the last four months of the year historically have been the heaviest, as employers finalize budgets and business plans for the coming year,

For smaller businesses, their budgets are often so tight that they're really fretful about putting money into prevention because they're not sure it's a tangible investment for them.

For schools and other government buildings, it is essentially important in times of tight budgets and high fuel prices to focus on energy savings.

Fuel costs are still a small part of vacation budgets. For most people, that's not a deal breaker.

IT budgets remain closely scrutinized and customers continue to exert conservative capital spending strategies.

IT budgets, often strained by the need for real estate, power and cooling, will shift toward building new applications and IT services that are specifically developed to drive new business.

Given the scope, the magnitude and disruption, it went extremely smoothly. It came in on schedule and on budget.

When they pay us back, it will all be put back in the budgets like it came out,

If we didn't want more, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I would simply say, yes, fund our budget.

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,

He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.

We can do this with monies out of our public works budget.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

When household budgets tighten up women continue to buy for themselves. It's happening now.

(Music) is one of the things that always gets cut when schools face (financial) difficulties. When I was in school, we had instruments and uniforms and we had great budgets and we took trips and now it's wham! Everything is gone.

More than anything else, this one program threatens the long-term federal budget.

Many companies are very conscious about budgets today. So the $35 to $100 price points are very popular with corporate accounts.