Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
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Balanced Budget... Nov 14th,2012
Balanced Budget …Nov 14th,2012
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James Bredin
What do you mean; balanced budget; our politicians never heard,
They're busy travelling the world and never got the word,
Okay, we just heard that lower commodity prices are a bad sign,
Will they or will they not, have to examine our credit line?
Should massive government spending be under control?
Should we have forbidden referendums or maybe have a poll?
Have Conservative principles been thrown out the door?
And how do promises of a future balanced budget score?
Is this the same crowd that refused death-with-dignity to us all?
Do they expect us to get down on our knees or maybe crawl?
Why is the federal budget ballooning to $26 billion this year?
Should we forget about this because the government is sincere?
Nov 14th,2012
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Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
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You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
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It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
quote by Gideon Welles
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Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.
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If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
quote by Frank Bruno
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When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
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Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.
quote by Steve Chabot
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Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.
quote by Howard Dean
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The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
quote by Newt Gingrich
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There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
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I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.
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Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
quote by Charles Vest
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So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
quote by James H. Douglas
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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
quote by Thomas Sowell
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We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.
quote by Mitch Daniels
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
quote by Ross Perot
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The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.
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