We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should … - Mitch Daniels

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Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Mitch Daniels

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government

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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

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If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy. '

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When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on. '

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Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

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Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

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