He called the $2.3 billion deal a "fiscal gimmick" fraught with future risks and costs.

He said the proposal was a fiscal gimmick like those that drove the city to the brink of bankruptcy in the 1970's.

But many city and state officials scoffed, calling the proposal a fiscal gimmick.

They have also resorted to fiscal gimmicks that are certain to create new budget problems next year.

We're not going to use fiscal gimmicks to conceal reality.

Much of the shortfall results from a fiscal gimmick.

It could reduce reliance on ever more fiscal gimmicks.

That, in turn, would reduce the state's ability to use fiscal gimmicks.

He called the $2.3 billion deal a "fiscal gimmick."

And so perhaps are the days of fiscal gimmicks.