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We support full disclosure of all "on" and "off" budget spending. We demand that Congress vote only for balanced budgets, and that Social Security funds never be used to balance the budgetspending. A budget surplus should never be used to increasenot justify increased spending. We support zero- basedzero-based budgeting.

Balanced budget is meaningless. Balancing the "budget" is as easy as taking things off budget.

The mention of Social Security is meaningless. To argue otherwise, you would have to assume the federal government could somehow save or invest surplus cash. That measure would be deflationary, cause additional external debt, or and result in drastically increased Social Security spending.

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