Issue Position: Spending & Debt
Issue Position
Issues: Government Budget and Spending
* Congress is $13 trillion in debt, and continuing to borrow $4 billion a day. The combined economies of the world cannot sustain that level of borrowing and spending. We need to turn off the faucet before the bathtub overflows.
* The Obama FY2011 proposed budget doubles the national debt, increases spending to nearly $4 trillion, and imposes a deficit of $1.6 trillion this year alone.
* Daniel Webster supports cutting spending, balancing the budget, and implementing a line item veto.
* By rolling back the budget to 2007 levels, restricting government spending and making a few tough choices, we could balance the budget in three years, and cut the national debt in half by 2020.
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