“There is a smarter way to do this –- to reduce our deficits without harming our economy. But Congress has to act in order for that to happen.”
“Now, for two years, I’ve offered a balanced approach to deficit reduction that would prevent these harmful cuts…”
“I am willing to cut more spending that we don’t need, get rid of programs that aren’t working. I’ve laid out specific reforms to our entitlement programs that can achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms that were proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.”
“I’m willing to save hundreds of billions of dollars by enacting comprehensive tax reform that gets rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well off and well connected, without raising tax rates.”