Unbalanced Budget Quotes

When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.

The real problem with the government is not the deficit; it is that the government spends too much money.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

A policy of adequate governmental outlays at a time when private enterprises is curtailing its expenditures does not reflect a preference for an unbalanced budget. It merely reflects a desire and the need to put idle men, money and material to work.

[Federal deficits] are like an athlete taking steroids. You get a short term boost and long term damage.

This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

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