Balanced Quote by Thomas Sowell

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

— Herbert Hoover

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

— Tim Murphy

I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.

— Andrew Scheer

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to…

— Mitch Daniels

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those…

— William Vickrey

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot

We need to balance the budget and force Washington to stop spending more than it takes in.

— Joni Ernst

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

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

— Grover Norquist

The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that…

— Kevin Brady

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather…

— John Maynard Keynes

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

— Mitt Romney