Annastacia Palaszczuk Quotes

I will never consent to make our penal code the basis of our Ways and Means …

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

The budget is looked upon in the Congress as a way for a political party to promote itself.

While a Treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious evil.

Without the general taxes there can be no unity, and without unity, no concentration, and without this no economies can be implemented … the country is lost.

We can’t just run the government on political rhetoric and ideology.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Fiscal policy is a very important part of the tool kit for policy makers.

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

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.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.