Worse, in the unlikely event that the piecemeal attacks succeeded, Obamacare would be transformed from a notionally deficit-neutral bill into a straightforward budget-buster.
Historically, one problem conservatives had with a straightforward balanced budget requirement was a concern that it might lead to tax increases.
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And if that's the case -- if it's a straightforward tax increase or no balanced budget -- will the self-styled deficit hawks in the Republican Party step up and do what we all know needs to be done?
The budget deal preserves a straightforward way to prevent a new fracking frenzy and surge in greenhouse pollution: President Obama can declare a national emergency and prohibit exports for a year -- and that prohibition can be renewed indefinitely.
Raising tuition for international students has, until now, been a straightforward way to pay for big university budgets.
A straightforward, narrow fix to the federal wildfire budgeting process is uncontroversial and needed urgently.
Mr. Clinton's coming budget, he said, would have "a straightforward, fiscally disciplined path that will ensure we pay off the national debt within 15 years".
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