Quotes About Fiscal

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.

As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.

who loves to immerse herself in a universe where fiscal cells split off to create gazillions of replicas of themselves spinning off into beautiful infinity the glittering stars of wealth that make the world go around

The country's already got a two billion dollar debt. Say that over and see if you can sense it. Not millions . . . two billions. I doubt if the country'll ever take on a load like that again once it's settled.

Taxes are going up, under almost any administration. I'm not averse to it because I believe that we've got to get our fiscal house in order and our economy back on track . . . I think those most able to pay the higher tax ought to probably pay a larger share.

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Tough decisions have to be made to close our fiscal gap, stabilise our debt, and restore our state-owned enterprises to health.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

I used the so-called Laffer Curve all the time in my classes and with anyone else who would listen to me to illustrate the trade-off between tax rates and tax revenues.

The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

The only way to restore fiscal sanity is to either increase revenue or restrain entitlement spending.

To saddle the next generation with unimaginable debt is not only callous, it is morally reprehensible

My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.

I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.

The GOP is just as culpable as Democrats for the dismal fiscal outlook because the party engages in excessive and simplistic bombast on the budget when it is out of power and then wastes its time on distractions when it has the opportunity to make progress with incremental reforms.