Angus King actually said...

"If you put a balanced budget amendment on top of that situation, with the mandatory rise caused mostly by health care and demographics, and that is all you do, you squeeze the shortfall down into the ..."

"It is much easier to spend than it is to tax. So, deficits are almost hard-wired into the system unless there is a discipline."

"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."