Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
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There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.
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.
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.
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.
It's insane to try to balance the budget.
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.