Americans' lives are being put at risk by this policy.
To think that we can solve it entirely by cutting programs that are benefitting people who we made commitments to is unr...
the debt and the deficit is a serious problem, and to me, lowering the deficit is progress, but it is not an answer beca...
we are doing a woeful job of underfunding our infrastructure at this time.
I think long-term debt and deficits are unsustainable and are, in fact, burdening future generations and the interest ra...
If you put a balanced budget amendment on top of that situation, with the mandatory rise caused mostly by health care an...
It is much easier to spend than it is to tax. So, deficits are almost hard-wired into the system unless there is a disci...
The arithmetic does not work. And, I think of the No Tax Pledge as a kind of ratchet that only works in one direction.
I just think we have got to do something about this, and we have got to do it in a comprehensive way.
Poverty, because of good work of people like Senator Sanders, has dramatically decreased among seniors over the last 50 ...
It is our generation being unwilling to pay our own bills. And we are borrowing from our kids.
I think if Tom Brokaw wrote a book about our generation, it would be called 'The Great Skedaddle' after the first Battle...
If you cut taxes when you are in a deficit situation and borrow to make up the difference, all you are really doing is s...
I think it is just too easy to say, 'Oh, we are just going to do this for 5 years.'
If we are running huge deficits at a time of relative non-crisis and then when we have a legitimate crisis, we do not ha...
We have to get control of health care costs, which we spend twice as much per capita than anybody else in the world.
The debt is a problem and the interest rate is a looming serious problem.
if you add the Balanced Budget Amendment and the No-Tax Pledge, it creates a ratchet effect that you will never solve an...
