Crowds Quote by Martin Feldstein

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

— Richard Wagner

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

— Piyush Goyal

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 federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives…

— John F. Kennedy

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced…

— Richard Wagner

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few…

— John F. Kennedy

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the…

— Ludwig von Mises

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher…

— Henry Hazlitt

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite…

— William J. Clinton

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

— Gregory D Hess

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

— Barack Obama

Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them…

— Alan Greenspan