Budgetary Shortfall Quotes

You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

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

One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch.