Page 18 - Spending Increase News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Set off important cuts if they don't do it, right? >> yes and no. here is the depressing part, brenda, if everyone walks away, what he they call a sequester, i believe, and then the, the cuts amount to over the next ten years, the increases will still increase in the budget, 1.6 trillion dollars. >> right. >> without the sequester, it's 1.7 trillion dollars, so, you're talking a drop in the bucket, but i'll tell you what, brenda, at this point i would take that rather than had a just flat out spending increase in taxes and the other b-s we're going to see. >> brenda: susan? >> one of the probl...

welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i'm soledad o'brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. >> thank you. we have a lot to do today. let's get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it's now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims' phones. a report in another british tabloid, "the mirror" quoting a source who says "news of the world," the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an inv...

Of creating long-term sustainable jobs. they can fix the potholes, what happens after. we need entrepreneurs out there starting new businesses and private number is very important, which wasn't bad this month. the government had a negative number and the private sector is actually creating jobs and the problem is we're not creating enough per month to get the people off their butts, basically back to work. >> president obama had this to say about the economy this week, i think we have a sound bite of that. go ahead and play that, if we do. >> now, i'll read it for you, so there are always goin...

Institutes of health. and 500 million from the cops program, which puts more police on the streets. congressman, when it gets down to those specification, are you willing to defend all of those cuts? >> yes. because last year these agencies got double and triple digit spending increases. you throw the stimulus in there, e.p.a. got a triple-digit spending increase. look, if borrowing and spending was the way to create jobs, we would be at full employment. we are not. we have high unemployment. so, last year, at the end of the fiscal year, the government had 1.4 trillion in leftover money. we ca...

In your first term around cigarette tax? >> when i became governor, spending actually increased 2% in my first term. revenue increased 42% my first term. without raising anybody's taxes we did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. that's how you get your revenue up. we did that without raising anybody's taxes. revenue increased 50% faster than spending increase. spending went up 2, revenue went up 42. 50% difference. without raising taxes. i did my second term, raised the cigarette tax. i had said when i ran the first time we're not raising anybody's taxes. when i ran for ...