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Taxes Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

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If you’re puzzling over how taxes shape economies, Stiglitz’s perspective offers a clear lens. His fifteen remarks cut through jargon, revealing how fiscal policy can lift or hinder societies. Expect a blend of data‑driven critique and human‑centered insight that makes the abstract feel concrete.

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Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

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It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

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Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest…

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The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

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The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're…

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When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead…

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These debt obligations will simply erode America's standard of living in the future. Money spent to service the debt is money that…

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In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So…

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In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation…

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It isn't inevitable that we have a globalization which is used by the corporations not to pay taxes. It is not inevitable…

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I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down…

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When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists…

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Now it is unambiguously clear that trickle-down economics does not work. But what does that mean? That means we have to structure…

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This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The…

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Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,…

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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

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China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

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Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those…

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Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they…

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It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much…

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In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only…

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The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

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A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -…

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We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have…

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World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

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Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for…

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I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person…

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The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages…

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