- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government Spending Quotes
The endless argument over budgets and burden.
This collection of government spending quotes covers arguments for cutting taxes and spending together, plus warnings about how painful even modest reductions can feel. For more on fiscal themes, see our Economy quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.
- Government Agencies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
- Additional
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be able to spend or invest. When government spending goes up, private spending goes down. There is no net effect. No wealth creation.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
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- Nov 07, 2020