The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
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The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
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.
In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.
The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.
The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.
When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.
The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.