Second, while we are waiting for the cost containment provisions to take hold, we are insisting that health care reform be deficit neutral.

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In other words, the Administration is committed to a health care reform that is at least deficit neutral over 10-years -- and deficit-reducing, potentially to quite a significant degree, over the longer term.

WHITEHOUSE: Health Care Reform and Fiscal Discipline

But some anti-tax absolutists have decided that closing any tax loophole amounts to a tax hike unless it is deficit neutral -- ignoring the whole reason for engaging in this forced fire drill.

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So I think this is a long process that will involve stakeholders at all levels with both political parties weighing in on their ideas about how we meet the goal of reforming the way corporate taxes are done, lowering that rate, but keeping it deficit neutral.

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This legislation is not only deficit-neutral, it actually helps the deficit over the next 10 years.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Health care reform will be paid for, and it will be deficit-neutral over 10 years.

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Graham's amendment establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund to broaden the effects of the spending cuts.

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We have shifted, in a deficit-neutral way, billions of dollars into our student loan programs, into our community colleges.

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He's talked about the fact that this plan has to be deficit-neutral.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The significantly higher tax base that would result under lower capital income taxes means that such a reform would be deficit-neutral, provided that either transfer payments were reduced by less than 2% of GDP or a national consumption tax of less than 3% were adopted.

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So -- and by the way, all of it is paid for, and not only is it deficit-neutral but the Congressional Budget Office, which is the bipartisan office that's the scorekeeper for how much things cost in Congress, says it's going to reduce our costs by a trillion dollars.

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Gary Lincoln-Hope, chief executive of Xfor, said although the council had informed the firm it was "suffering a deficit in the scheme", Xfor was working to make sure the deal would prove "cost neutral" for taxpayers.

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