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Mark Kennedy: “My concern is we are hearing a lot about the debt, and we care about the debt, but what is the goal? Is the goal to get…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2003
My concern is we are hearing a lot about the debt, and we care about the debt, but what is the goal? Is the goal to get it in balance no matter how it is, and how we get there really does not make any difference, whether it is raising taxes, as there is included in the Blue Dog budget; or is it controlling spending? And I think the real challenge we need to do is that there is a difference in terms of how we achieve that, and I believe that the way that we need to get to the balanced budget is we need to kick-start this economy, get it moving north, generate tax revenue as well as we need to control that spending, and that is where we need to have some more talking.
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Mark Kennedy
Minnesota
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Discussing the approach to achieving a balanced budget and addressing national debt.

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