Deficit Quote by Austan Goolsbee Download Open image “Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.” — Austan Goolsbee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deficit Dispute Increased Look
When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“Tax increases don’t eliminate deficits they increase govt. spending.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact… — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.' — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on… — Paul Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image