A balanced budget is when total revenue equals or exceeds total expenditures. For this Nation’s citizens, this is how your personal finances are managed. We all know, if you spend more than you make, financial disaster is inevitable. This is general knowledge to every American, so much so that any financial crisis counseling takes the first step of establishing a budget. This is common sense, to everybody but Congress. We are going on a third year without a budget. The result has been economic recession and the highest deficits in the history of the Nation.

 A decade of deficit spending has brought us to a tipping point. This problem will not fix itself and cannot be ignored away. Ask any American what they would do if they cannot pay their bills. Almost without exception, they’ll respond, “Tighten the belt. Stop spending. Cancel the cable TV, etc.” Americans know the easiest and most effective start is to reduce how much they spend. It is time Washington started listening.

 Unfortunately, even drastic cuts alone will not balance the budget. Our federal budget is broken worse than that. We must attack the other side of this equation also. We must raise revenue. Congress has thrown in the towel on how to do this and taken the easy way out. “Raise taxes,” they exclaim. There is another way. In fact, it is a proven way.

Grow the economy. Allow the private sector to flourish and create jobs. This is how our economy was designed to function. “Fundamental change” has only broken and temporarily derailed the greatest prosperity on Earth. More jobs generate more revenue. The people and the government both prosper, both have more revenue, without raising taxes.

 I will not irresponsibly and dishonestly claim, “No tax increases ever.” There are times that call for a tax increase, national emergencies or times of war. It is dishonorable to pass these debts on to our children.

 I will proudly exclaim, “No tax increase ever, without a budget.” As your Representative, I will not support any tax unless the taxpayer can evaluate exactly where their money will be spent.

 It is time to end taxpayer money going to political donors as political graft and calling it Stimulus. It is time to stop Congress from stealing from our children. It is a time for the transparency of a federal budget. It is time for the responsibility of a Balanced Budget.

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