Exchanging Quote by Robert Higgs

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

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

— Mick Mulvaney

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

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced…

— Richard Wagner

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of…

— Chris Chocola

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

— Murray Rothbard

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

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

— DeWitt Wallace

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