Billions Quote by Henry Hazlitt

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

— Piyush Goyal

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out…

— Martin Feldstein

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

— William Vickrey

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government…

— Arthur Laffer

The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Various economists and experts had suggested increasing government spending to fight COVID-19, to help the poor survive. On the other hand, businesses were helped…

— Anurag Thakur

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

— Henry Hazlitt

The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in.…

— Nancy Pelosi

The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes.

— Gregory D Hess

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

— Dick Durbin

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell