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We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them.

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.