Every day, many in this audience help bear that burden with professionalism, courage, and grace.
That's the kind of drastic action you have to take if you are basically saying those who have done the best over the last 30 years, and especially over the last 10 years, should bear no burden for dealing with this significant issue, which is the need to reduce our deficit and debt.
Of course, this burden is not ours alone to bear.
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However, the controversy over Al Hutchinson's handling of historic cases vividly illustrates how this approach can damage those agencies which bear the burden of trying to discharge multiple duties.
And he will continue to work with Congress to achieve balanced deficit reduction in a way that ensures that we don't ask seniors and families with disabled children, or families struggling to send their kids to college to bear all the burden, but that we do this together.
Since interest paid to the Fed, the Social Security system and other government pension funds is effectively rebated to the Treasury, taxpayers currently bear only the burden of interest on 60% of this debt.
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For this reason, the middle class will bear much of the burden of rising taxes.
We cannot expect to achieve this by raising tax rates, unless those who bear the burden of these higher taxes do so cheerfully.
It is quite easy to fit some policies aimed at the top and bottom of society in to this template - for example, as those with the broadest shoulders should bear the biggest burden, there would be a new levy on banker's bonuses.
Basically, you and I as citizens, the listener as a citizen, we don't want - we want the people who run banks - I think this is safe to say - we want them to take risks but to bear the burden of those risks.
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This scenario results, these advocates say, in all insured individuals being indirectly forced to bear the burden of uncompensated emergency care which, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), amounts to 55% of emergency care.
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So a proposal that says we'll solve this problem temporarily or for the long term, either way, just by asking those folks to bear the burden is not one the President would support.
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