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You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

You make budget cuts based on what you want to accomplish. You have to decide what is our priority going forward as a country. You cannot do it on the backs of any one group of people... There has to be some balance.

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.