Kent Conrad Pay Quotations

His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without using the Medicare trust fund,

He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it?

It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills,

If you are not able to pay down the debt, that means that the federal government is in competition with private-sector borrowers for money, driving up the costs of interest rates and that's a hidden tax on every American family -- higher mortgage payments, higher car payments, higher college loan payments,

By using Social Security trust fund dollars to pay for tax cuts and other government spending, the administration significantly understates the true fiscal imbalance of the country.