I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm for a balanced budget now.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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.
What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
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.
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.
Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.
I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.