Quotes About Spending

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

Riches are for spending.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Never, never, never should a penny of that miraculous fortune be spent; rather should it be added to. It was a nest egg, a monstrous, roc-like nest egg, not so large, however, but that it could be made larger. Already by the end of that winter Trina had begun to make up the deficit of two hundred dollars that she had been forced to expend on the preparations for her marriage.

The greenback dollar was born from this action. Lincoln said, "The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.

Durante los ocho años de presidencia de George W. Bush, y los primeros cuatro de Barack Obama, el país desembolsó un billón de dólares para crear la estructura de seguridad más mastodóntica, engorrosa, duplicada y tal vez ineficaz que el mundo había conocido jamás.

Shouldn't we be as rigorous in hiring as we are in capital spending?

Its main responsibility is health spending, but it oversees a lot of other things as well. Education, culture, and so on.

the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of pleasure tearing one another to pieces from the emulation of spending money, and the men of business from envy in getting it.

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.

Saving" in short, in the modern world, is only another form of spending.

the belief that public works necessarily create new jobs is false. If the money was raised by taxation, we saw, then for every dollar that the government spent on public works one less dollar was spent by the taxpayers to meet their own wants, and for every public job created one private job was destroyed.

either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation.

So the government launches on a gigantic housing program—at the taxpayers' expense.

If we look at it now from the consumer's point of view, we find that he can buy less with his money. Because he has to pay more for sweaters and other protected goods, he can buy less of everything else. The general purchasing power of his income has therefore been reduced.

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists.

all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation. Having

In an exchange economy everybody's money income is somebody else's cost.

Henry Hazlitt

Por cada dólar gastado en el puente habrá un dólar menos en el bolsillo de los contribuyentes. Si el puente cuesta un millón de dólares, los contribuyentes habrán de abonar un millón de dólares, y se encontrarán sin una cantidad que de otro modo hubiesen empleado en las cosas que más necesitaban.