Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
It's insane to try to balance the budget.
What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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.
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.