When the Post Office runs short on business revenues and suffers declines, they raised the prices of stamps to cover their expense shortfall. They have no competition. When a private business runs short on business revenues, they cut operating budgets, lay-off employees, freeze capital expenditures, and attempt to reschedule debt load. They go to the banks with a business plan that shows a need for additional cash flow using borrowed funds with a plan to convert those funds into profits that will ultimately pay back those borrowed funds to the bank. Commitments of collateral are pledged and secured so that the borrower is motivated to succeed.
Governments pay no dividends.
They receive them from us. In this one statement by Daschle, he shows that he doesn't understand this simple concept. In his world, the government is the business paying the rest of us dividends for our efforts. In Daschle's world the tail wags the dog. What the government receives is dividends from us.