Budget Quote by Paul Craig Roberts

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

— Bill Gross

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

— Kevin Brady

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

— Amity Shlaes

This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

— Jim Nussle

During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.

— Charles L. Evans

“Overall, the “Reagan boom” not only produced widespread prosperity but—along with the attendant Soviet collapse—helped generate budget surpluses in the 1990s. Carter-Ford-era terms like…

— Paul Kengor

The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.

— Timothy Noah

Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as…

— Stanley Fischer

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

— Dick Cheney

President Trump's record of tax reform and deregulation powered the American economy to the fastest real wage increases in a generation.

— Scott Bessent

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

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge…

— Thomas Frank