discretionary spending

基本解釋

But even when defence is included, discretionary spending is less than 40% of the total.
但即使包括國(guó)防，可任意支配的開支還是少于總開支的40%。
I will send you a budget that holds the growth of discretionary spending below inflation, makes tax relief permanent, and stays on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009.
我將向你們提出一項(xiàng)預(yù)算，把自行支配的支出增長(zhǎng)控制在通脹率以下，將減稅措施永久化，并朝著到2009年將赤字減少一半的方向努力。
They would explain that discretionary spending has little to do with the long-run imbalance between spending and revenues.
他們會(huì)解釋說，可自由支配支出與開支與收入之間的長(zhǎng)期失衡關(guān)系并不大。

"It's part of the problem of the entertainment and tourist industry that you are so dependent upon a buoyant economy, because one of the first things that people cut is their discretionary leisure spending."
But there was an increase in discretionary spending And that's the problem, no question about that. -No The republicans sidled up to the troff... and it behaved like porkers Is that roughly what happened? -Yes.
話說回來，當(dāng)時(shí)自由支出確實(shí)增長(zhǎng)不少,這才是癥結(jié)所在，這一點(diǎn)毫無疑問，-對(duì)吧,共和黨一步一步放寬了尺度。,結(jié)果導(dǎo)致負(fù)債累累,大致原委是這樣吧？，-沒錯(cuò)。
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