Quotes About Spending

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world over hate and fear us, would have been better spent on public education and libraries. It's hard to imagine that history won't prove him right, if it hasn't already.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

A recent study by two York University researchers found that Big Pharma spends nearly twice as much on promotion and advertising as it does on research and development.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

nothing statusy about being stranded on the road. Designer-label companies charge more because they've spent a fortune on marketing and advertising to build their brand's status, their perceived value. I roll my eyes at people who, for example, wear Facconable shirts or Rolex watches. Right or wrong, I perceive them as so insecure that they need to attempt to appear worthy by silly spending.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion

I intend to achieve financial freedom and win over debt for a lifetime by consistently giving, saving, and never spending more money than I earn. I will know I've reached my goal when I have no unsecured debt; I have a $10,000 Contingency Fund; my Freedom Account is funded one year in advance; and I am consistently giving away 10 percent, saving 10 percent, and living on 80 percent of my income.