Quotes About Fiscal

Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.

I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Let's not get so ecstatic we ignore the fiscal situation. As my agent so delicately pointed out, most novels--providing they get published--net the author about enough for a new typewriter ribbon and a quart of tequila in which to drown his sorrows when he receives his royalty statement. You will find precious few novelists listed in Dun and Bradstreet.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.