Please Do Not Promise to Balance the Federal Budget

By Stan Collender
Roll Call Contributing Writer
July 15, 2008

One of the two presumptive presidential candidates last week promised to balance the federal budget by 2013. I’m specifically not mentioning his name because (1) most likely you already know who made the pledge, and (2) for the purposes of this column it doesn’t really matter.



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