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The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

— Henry Paulson

The reason this is important is because by doing that, we cannot only reduce the deficit, we cannot only encourage job growth through small…

— Barack Obama

Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more…

— Nina Easton

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

— Ronald Reagan

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

— Jim Ramstad

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

— Allan H. Meltzer

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

— Dick Durbin

Governments need to lay out a credible path to reducing their deficits in the medium term, but without excessively enfeebling an already weak recovery.…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to…

— Barack Obama