Deficit Quote by William Vickrey

Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more…

— Nina Easton

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits…

— Indra Nooyi

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

— Henry Paulson

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of…

— Paul Krugman

The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment

— Immanuel Wallerstein

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher…

— Henry Hazlitt

The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it…

— Milton Friedman

We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two,…

— Indra Nooyi

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment…

— Ben Bernanke

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

— Jim Ramstad

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is…

— Christina Romer