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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.

— Mitt Romney

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

— Mitt Romney

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

— Mike Lee

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.

— Marcia Fudge

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

— Mark McKinnon

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

— Tom DeLay

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Newt Gingrich

A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.

— Susan Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— William Vickrey

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.

— Daniel Keys Moran