discretionary spending

基本解释

But even when defence is included, discretionary spending is less than 40% of the total.
但即使包括国防，可任意支配的开支还是少于总开支的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.
我将向你们提出一项预算，把自行支配的支出增长控制在通胀率以下，将减税措施永久化，并朝着到2009年将赤字减少一半的方向努力。
They would explain that discretionary spending has little to do with the long-run imbalance between spending and revenues.
他们会解释说，可自由支配支出与开支与收入之间的长期失衡关系并不大。

"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.
话说回来，当时自由支出确实增长不少,这才是症结所在，这一点毫无疑问，-对吧,共和党一步一步放宽了尺度。,结果导致负债累累,大致原委是这样吧？，-没错。
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