Budget Deficit Quotes
The politics and math behind a nation's red ink.
One quote frames a colossal budget deficit as a moral issue, arguing citizens have an obligation to pay fair, reasonable dues once debt reaches that scale. Another pushes back on blame, insisting the deficit wasn't caused by children with autism or elderly grandparents needing Balance.
We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast...
I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?
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When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.
America Quotes
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're...
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A specific record is cited too, a $10 billion deficit turned into an $8 billion surplus by 2005 without raising taxes, framed as proof a Balanced Budget is achievable. A French proposal aims for the same goal by 2017, showing the debate reaches well beyond America.
