“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.” LongDoeProblemGovernmentDesireChoicesSocialTermSecurityDemandTaxesToughSpendingBudgetsLong TermEfficientSocial SecurityEntitlementAccountingMedicareSave MeDeceptiveGimmicksTough Choices Author:Reince Priebus
“The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.” UseGovernmentUsedTermCostPaidUniversityUsed To BeBudgetsFederal GovernmentItemsShifting Author:Charles M. Vest
“American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.” WayShouldGovernmentLastsRememberPoliticsPoliticianVoteDollarsCongressInvisibleBudgetsExpensesVotersBottlesFederal GovernmentAlcoholicsTaxpayersWhiskeySurplusCupboardsAmerican Voters Author:Ron Paul
“No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.” MatterGovernmentHappensLaborNo Matter WhatBudgetsCoalitions Author:Joe Hockey
“Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military than do all other nations on earth put together, and military expenditures are not only the basis of the government's industrial policy; they also take up such a huge proportion of the budget that by many estimations, were it not for them, the United States would not run a deficit at all.” Has BeensWarStatesGovernmentRunningEarthTogetherNationsUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryPolicyHugeBasesRemainsDebtBudgetsProportionDeficitExpendituresEstimationBudget Deficit Author:David Graeber
“It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.” GovernmentReturnSpendingBudgetsAmendmentsBalancedBalanced Budget Author:Newt Gingrich
“Ron Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered – not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending). Besides, what a balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in – that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers.” GovernmentWealthBalanceTaxesWasteSpendingProducersBudgetsBalancedRequirementsStolenRevenueBalanced Budget Author:Ilana Mercer
“The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.” GovernmentBudgetsBottlesFederal GovernmentAlcoholicsWhiskeySurplusCupboards Author:Ron Paul
“If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.” IfsTwoRealStatesDoneGovernmentSchoolLastsChoicesRecordsCuttingHighestElectionCharityBudgetsHospitalsGovernorsPollsPercentagesBureaucratsState GovernmentLandslidesSchool Choice Author:Bobby Jindal
“Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.” GivingUseGovernmentEnergyProjectsResourcesCleanClimate ChangeProductionsSpendingBudgetsFuelGasConsumptionFossilsScarceFossil FuelEmissionsGreenhousesSubsidiesClean EnergyGreenhouse Gases Author:Jose Angel Gurria