Maya MacGuineas Quotations

What's somewhat surprising is that you hear people talking about holding off on spending cuts,

There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it.

Next year's budget has already been derailed and the new fiscal year hasn't even begun,

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

We have a very short window of opportunity to make real changes in advance of when the real fiscal storm hits, and we're continuing to make things worse instead of better.

The fact that the overall effect of reconciliation taken together was to enlarge rather than reduce the deficit undermines the credibility of anyone claiming that this was a deficit-reduction package.

The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum tax, it's not just Republican, it's bipartisan.

When you finish college, you don't suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere-in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans.

If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country will never notice whether we pass a budget resolution or not.

The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like what parents are trying to get their kids not to do, but if they look at the federal government, that's what they're doing.

The growth in spending is significantly lower than what we've seen in past years, and clearly the president, who is responding to pressure in his own party, wanted to show he was serious about putting forward a budget that was tight on spending.