Federal government Quote by Murray Rothbard

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

Monetary policy causes booms and busts.

— Edward C. Prescott

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country…

— John McCain

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

— Steve Scalise

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly…

— Thomas Frank

“To modernize it a bit, lavish and excessive benefits during boom times won’t be remembered enough if you ask for pay cuts or do…

— Sebastian Marshall

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

“Indeed, self-focus would become a primary motivation of the Boomers’ neoliberal reforms after 1980, where retention of income took precedence over its partial redistribution…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In 1893, the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to…

— Ludwig von Mises