1930s Quote by Robert Higgs

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies,…

— Stephen Harper

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby…

— Kevin Rudd

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

“Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had…

— John Morris Roberts

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

— Barack Obama

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

— Eric Garcetti

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal…

— Paul Krugman

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite…

— Larry Elder

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent,…

— Paul Ryan

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

— Richard Wagner

Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time…

— Steve Kroft

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

— Amity Shlaes