One of the thing we thought this debt ceiling debate made sense was a proposal we put forward we thought was starting to break through with ...
They didn't steal that money, they worked hard for that money.
We need to get government out of the way.
We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.
Think about what the deal was, a $14 trillion debt; we raise it $2.4 trillion; we got $21 billion in savings the first year.
I would argue Standard & Poor's downgraded us because the lack of the deal, the agreement addressing how serious this situation is.
Thank you to the four patriots who are sitting before us, trying to avoid what Erskine Bowles talked about today.
Yeah, I am talking about not lowering the tax, so it would be revenue-neutral, so there would be no reduction in the taxation.
I want to thank you all for your help today and the help you have given us up to this point.
Our success or failure will depend in large measure on your good work.
Right, some of the interactions. Well, I think that would be very helpful, if we could give you some more specificity as to timing and speci...
We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners.
I would just ask you if you could comment on the unsustainable fiscal path that you have outlined repeatedly.
This is something, if you can get back to us on that, it would be very helpful.
I think all of us are going to be really interested in that information because that goes to all the issues we talked about earlier about a ...
In fact, in looking around the world, and there is a recent report by Alberto Alesina of Harvard University showing that the most successful...
So I think it is a great point that the economy is going to drive so much of this.
It appears as though we are heading there if you look at the current policy baseline.
