A 1.4 percent across-the-board cut will not do well enough to make sure that we can balance our budget without going into Social Security. We estimate it would have to be a 9 percent across-the-board cut. |
A down payment by the United States of $1 billion would provide further momentum. This down payment would make it possible for more than 10 million children to go to school and ensure that our country is contributing at least as much as the United Kingdom. |
A tax cut that is $800 billion or $500 billion is an irresponsible tax cut that would threaten our ability to pay down the debt, secure Medicare, Social Security and education, ... Fox News Sunday. |
but I'm actually quite confident that we will iron it out and ? that we will have a more formal agreement quite soon. |
I believe the administration may have been successful in the short term at hoodwinking the public, |
I believe the administration may have been successful in the short term at hoodwinking the public. |
I think there's a few tough nuts left to crack. |
I would say the question is not whether we're going to have growth or productivity, because I believe we will have both, but whether or not that will lead to a strengthening of the middle class or a hollowing out of the middle class. |
If having a separate vote on tax cuts turns out to be a means of getting a bipartisan balanced-budget agreement, we're open to that. |
If you care about progress in market opening, you are going to have to have more ambitious compacts for sharing the downside costs as well as the benefits of open trade, ... As economists, we talk about how the benefits of lower prices are broadly shared. But the costs are very heavily concentrated. |
If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history. |
If you want to look at who is criticizing their economic plan, the most powerful criticisms came (Sunday) from Republicans Warren Rudman and Pete Peterson -- who rightfully noted that voters should beware of the technical voodoo and rosy scenarios and large increases in the deficit that we are about to see. |
In the end, there will be a successful launch of this round. The differences that exist now will get ironed out in the late- hour negotiations. |
In the last three months, the economic performance was disappointing for middle-class families and below expectations -- the results that have become the norm for the economy under President Bush. |
It would be better to do nothing and pay down $100 billion of our national debt than to sign a large and irresponsible tax cut that would signal to the world that the era of fiscal discipline in the United States is over, ... Meet The Press. |