Government Spending Quotes - Page 2

• For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Government, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, People, Rose

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• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Wish, Favors

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

  Larry Elder

  Mean, Government, Regulation

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• 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 that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Cutting, Government

  Michele Bachmann's response to State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 26, 2011.

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• 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.

  Stephen Harper

  Cutting, Government, Backyards

  Debates (Hansard) No. 173 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. March 23, 1995.

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• Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

  Bill Shuster

  Moving, Cutting, Government

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• If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.

  Christina Romer

  Blow, Government, Years

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• If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

  George Osborne

  Government, Growth, Spending

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

  James Madison

  Government, Constitution Of The United States, Charity

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.431

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• In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Teacher, School, Mean

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• Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

  Sheldon Richman

  Opportunity, Government, Employment

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• It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form of taxation. The real burden on the public is what government spends (and mandates others to spend). As I have said repeatedly, I would rather have government spend one trillion dollars with a deficit of a half a trillion than have government spend two trillion dollars with no deficit.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Planned Chaos". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1947.

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• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  Hank Johnson

  Government, Promise, Generations

  "Social Security Is Not the Problem" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Government, Poverty

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value cannot be ascertained because the transaction is not made by private parties exchanging their own resources in a market setting.

  Robert Higgs

  Party, Government, Finals

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• Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

  Milton Friedman

  Pain, Cutting, Government

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• It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Government, Iron, Wife

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• Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

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• It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Government, Limits, Spending

  Charles Edward Merriam (1903). “A History of American Political Theories”

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• The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Average, Tea

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• What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Pain, Mean, Cutting

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• Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

  Brian Sandoval

  Jobs, Government, Unemployment

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• Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.

  Michael Moore

  Government, Vaccines, Childhood

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