balanced budget
Noun
Meaning
a budget is balanced when current expenditures are equal to receipts
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You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.