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On debt and budget policy

These deficit spending quotes weigh the tradeoffs of national debt, a concern shared across the American People collection.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

Quotes by Sarah Palin

Focused
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Nov 07, 2020

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.

Quotes by Ross Douthat

Politicians
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Nov 07, 2020

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Quotes by Ron Paul

Nov 07, 2020

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

Quotes by Rick Perry

Defeat
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Nov 07, 2020

The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.

Quotes by Paul Samuelson

Balance
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Nov 07, 2020

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

Quotes by Marlin Stutzman

Other voices call for restrained budgets, arguing for Balance between spending and responsibility.

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