Accepted Quote by Christina Romer

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's…

— Jeremy Grantham

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow…

— Sidney Blumenthal

We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending.…

— James Callaghan

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various…

— Fareed Zakaria

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

— Richard Thaler

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

— Judy Woodruff

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll…

— William J. Clinton

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have…

— Paul Krugman

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich…

— Bernie Sanders

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea…

— Marco Rubio

It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

— George Deukmejian

Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help…

— Eva Kaili