Government Spending Quotes - Page 3

• We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Needs, Online

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• I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Cutting, Government, Cost

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• Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Independent, Thinking, Government

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• The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Gdp, Focus

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• What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

  Arthur Laffer

  Christmas, Father, Government

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• Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Suffering

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• American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal immigrants receive probationary status, they will immediately have access to federal benefits like Social Security and Obamacare coverage. If we thought we had a problem with government spending before, just wait.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Government, Law, Obamacare

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• The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Fear, Giving Up

  Chris Hedges (2011). “Death of the Liberal Class”, p.21, Nation Books

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• Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

  Mitt Romney

  Taken, Government, Gdp

  "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 2, 2011.

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• If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Republic

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• I often repeat three numbers: 20-23-26. Quebec generates only 20 per cent of Canada's wealth; it represents 23 per cent of the population, but it does 26 per cent of government spending in Canada. That's incompatible with good financial health over the long term.

  Philippe Couillard

  Government, Numbers, Long

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Long Ago, Heaven

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• Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Government, Office

  "Republicans Ask Themselves What Went Wrong". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 20, 2013.

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• You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

  Jim DeMint

  Party, Government, Order

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• Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

  Richard Wagner

  Government, People, Finance

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• However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Numbers, Political

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• Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, White, House

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

  James M. Buchanan

  Gdp, Rights, Government

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• The reality is the most important thing that can be done are these permanent changes like to the tax code, reduction of government spending. These are the things that pop up in economy and move it in the right direction, start to make it an economy that is moving because of the money in the private economy. When you think about it, when the Fed is lowering an interest rate, what it's doing is it's creating more liquidity. It's putting more money into the economy. The same thing happens when you reduce the tax except if happens from physical policy.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Government, Keys, Progress

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Facts, Valleys

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Class, Government

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Cutting, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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