We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.
Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.
Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
