1.   And few of them still adhere to the hard-line supply-side position that budget deficits do not matter.

2.   And yet the trade deficit does matter.

3.   Do budget deficits matter to the economy?

4.   In both states, Dole captured about four-fifths of the votes of people who said the deficit mattered most in making their decision on whom to support.

5.   It had become fashionable to assume that neither deficit really mattered.

6.   Right now members of Congress are assuring each other that deficits may not matter if the economy is doing all right.

7.   The budget deficit would not matter much if the question was one of whether the American government paid its bills by taxing or borrowing from its own citizens.

8.   While Bush and Dole worried about the impact of big tax cuts and wanted to balance the budget, Kemp felt that deficits do not matter so much.