Borrowing Quote by Richard Wagner

Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be…

— Maxime Bernier

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

Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value…

— Robert Higgs

The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting spending patterns…

— Robert H. Frank

In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can't…

— Arun Jaitley

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden…

— Milton Friedman

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

Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers…

— Ron Paul

The money that government spends is your money, not government's, and you know how to spend it better.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into…

— Raghuram Rajan

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

— Gregory D Hess