"The government could either raise $100 by selling……" — Peter R. Orszag
"The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market."
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Peter R. Orszag
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12 Quotes by Peter R. Orszag
Peter R. Orszag has 12 quotes on this site.
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If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted…
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The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver…
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Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
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My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
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Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
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Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
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Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other…
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Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
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For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished…
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It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if…
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More Allowance Quotes
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I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say…
— Terry Brooks
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
— Al Bernstein
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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an…
— Max Euwe
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A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is…
— Iza Calzado
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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to…
— Samuel Johnson
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. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I…
— Marta Kristen
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There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and…
— Unknown Author
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Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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