Tag Archive: budget deficit

Feb
14

UPDATE: Ontario Fin Min: “On Track” To Eliminate Deficit by FY2017/18

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(Updates throughout to add comments from economist, details about corporate tax freeze and background.) -Outlines initial measures to help eliminate deficit by 2017-2018 -To put LCBO headquarters up for sale to raise C$200 million -Key report on tackling deficit due this week TORONTO (Dow Jones)–Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan outlined a series of measures Monday …

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Jan
28

State of Florida using taxpayer dollars to defend Gretna pari-mutuel barrel racing unwanted expansion of gambling

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While the State of Florida grapples with a $2 billion budget deficit, one of its top regulatory agencies is simultaneously expending untold taxpayer funds to escalate and exacerbate a costly legal battle to defend the expansion of gambling, to which Florida’s top-ranking state legislators have repeatedly voiced their increasing opposition during the past several weeks. …

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