Cutting Quote by Milton Friedman

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

— Barack Obama

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed…

— Bill Shuster

To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of…

— Barack Obama

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

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a…

— Timothy Geithner

Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.

— Stephen Moore

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

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just…

— Paul Ryan

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

— Jim Ramstad

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

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