Austan Goolsbee Quotes

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• Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a…
• For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
• I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and…
• 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 it's…
• I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet…
• This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession,…
• The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has…
• The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
• The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they…
• 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 creates…
• When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas…
• If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from…
• So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down.…
• We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives…

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