You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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 budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
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.