The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses. — Andrew P. Harris Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bidenomics was the belief that a government spending bonanza could juice the economy after the turmoil caused by a pandemic, lockdowns and… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Various economists and experts had suggested increasing government spending to fight COVID-19, to help the poor survive. On the other hand, businesses… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The usual objection to printing money to pay for government spending is that it will unleash inflation. That would be true if… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
“the government-slashing agenda of the Koch network was a problem for these voters. Fink acknowledged, “We want to decrease regulations. Why? It’s… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs. — Brian Sandoval Copy Share Image
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending. — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose… — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
“It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending. — R. Lee Wrights Copy Share Image