Budget cuts Quote by Will Durst

They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The…

— Judy Woodruff

If you keep tax cuts for the wealthiest, it won't stimulate the economy, but it will add to the deficit. And, really, what we…

— Heather Boushey

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes…

— John Spratt

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable…

— Bob Beauprez

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax…

— Claire McCaskill

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget…As the national income grows, the federal government will…

— John F. Kennedy

If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to…

— Barack Obama

One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually…

— Brian Deese

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

— Richard Thaler