The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
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A one-year budget doesn't mean the government won't last, and a two-year budget doesn't mean it will.
The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
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.
Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.
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.
Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.
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.
Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.
Government is just spending too much money.
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
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