“Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.” PeopleTaxesLaborIncreaseDollarsSeriesIncludingSpendingSavingAustraliaZeroRetirementProposalReduction Author:Tony Abbott
“We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.” JobsGrowthTaxesIncreaseDebtSpendingHistoricSpending MoneyTax IncreasesJob Growth Author:Kristi Noem
“In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.” HousePayClearCuttingIncreaseDollarsIncludingCongressSpendingDefenseBillionsSignificantBudgetsDisabilityHealthcareVeteran Author:Jennifer Granholm
“The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.” TwoWarEndsFactsJobsCuttingPlansAmountDrugTaxesIncreaseSpendingEnormousAdministrationEngagedRevenuePrescriptionsTax CutsPrescription Drugs Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.” TryingGovernmentCausesGrowthPovertyEconomicTaxesDespairAll ThingsIncreaseRateSpendingPieUnemploymentShrinksEconomic GrowthAlleviate Author:Arthur Laffer
“Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.” ImportantLawCuttingTaxesPercentIncreaseCurrentsSpendingMassiveCliffsJanuaryTax IncreasesGangnam StyleSpending CutsJanuary 1stFiscal Cliff Author:Ben Bernanke
“If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.” IfsTaxesIncreaseRaisesSpendingCombination Author:Bobby Scott
“During the current period of health care development in our country, improvement of the management quality is becoming increasingly important. This is due to many processes, including new ones, such as increase in the number of financial resources used to implement the state guarantees program, the need for more efficient spending of funds, rearrangement of cash flows, single-channel financing” NeedsImportantCountryStatesCareUsedProcessNumbersQualityDevelopmentBecomingPeriodsResourcesProgramFlowIncreaseManagementIncludingFinancialCurrentsSpendingDuesImprovementOur CountryHealth CareGuaranteesFundCashEfficientFinancingCash FlowFinancial Resources Author:Veronika Skvortsova
“Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.” YearsMadeProblemDreamGovernmentOrderPayEconomicBecomingOne DayApproachSolutionsIncreasePaidDemocraticEightSpendingFasterAdoptedJumpingPackagesStimulusRecessionsBettingGovernment SpendingEconomic ProblemsJumping In Author:Dick Morris
“With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.” PeopleNeedsReasonWould BeRunningPayEconomyRichCuttingRiskRepublicanTaxesOppositesIncreaseRaisesStrategySpendingNo ReasonDeficitMandatesImpunityAggravating Author:Dick Morris
“Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.” GovernmentProgramIncreaseSpendingReducingStimulus Author:Richard Wagner
“We have to have structural entitlement reform, major spending cuts and not tax increase-retardants on economic growth to reverse our current course toward national bankruptcy, but Obama steadfastly remains on the wrong side of all these solutions.” CoursesSidesGrowthCuttingEconomicTaxesMajorsSolutionsIncreaseRemainsCurrentsSpendingReformReverseEconomic GrowthEntitlementBankruptcyTax IncreasesSpending Cuts Author:David Limbaugh
“Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people.” PeopleProblemBigsEnergyCommunityCuttingPlansTaxesIncreaseSolveSpendingDisasterLegacyDramaticRegulationCarbonTaxationDeficitManufacturingObamacareReductionCripplesTax IncreasesCancellationUnleashingFederal Spending Author:Dick Morris
“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.” IfsShouldHardWould BePresidentEconomyGreaterCuttingGroupsEconomicRepublicanLimitsConsequenceIncreaseRaisesDebtSpendingTriggersDefaultGlobal EconomyHorrificAdviserSpending Cuts Author:Dick Morris
“Whether it's called 'compassionate conservatism' or 'big government Republicanism,' after years of record increases in federal spending, more government is now the accepted Republican philosophy in Washington.” YearsPhilosophyBigsGovernmentRecordsRepublicanIncreaseSpendingAcceptedCompassionateConservatismBig GovernmentRepublicanismFederal Spending Author:Mike Pence
“Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.” MilitaryIncreaseSpendingDeficit Author:Ronald Reagan
“Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.” WarAnswersMiddleMilitaryCollegeIncreaseUniversitySpendingEastEndlessIncomeMiddle EastIntroducingLegislationAffordableTuitionColleges And UniversitiesEndless WarMilitary Spending Author:Bernie Sanders
“We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.” NeedsDealsMilitarySafeIncreaseSpendingZoneSyriaMilitary Spending Author:Jeb Bush
“I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted. Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.” TodayNationsSupportCuttingSeriousTaxesConscienceVoteIncreaseThreatSizePopulationObviousSpendingDefenseFavorsRelatedImprovingTax Cuts Author:John McCain
“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.” PeopleEnoughStoriesGovernmentJobsOrderGrowsSimpleCitiesPlansPromiseTaxesCapitalismIncreaseCreatorSpendingCampaignsIncomeEmploymentInequalityGenerousRepeatsVotingDetroitBankruptcyBoostPensionGovernment SpendingIncome InequalityJob CreatorsPension Plans Author:Ben Shapiro
“When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of.” CareJobsEconomyTakenIncreaseDebtSpendingProvidingRevenueInfrastructureShrinking Author:Barack Obama
“During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.” MadeAcceptingTaxesIncreaseElectionDollarsSpendingCampaignsBarackWillingnessVagueTax Increases Author:Bob Beauprez
“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” ShouldMeanSimpleGenerationsPoliticianPureTaxesIncreaseSpendingExposedDeficitFuture GenerationHikerTax IncreasesDeficit Spending Author:Ron Paul
“Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'” GovernmentLawPresidentOfficePercentIncreaseInvestmentSpendingAgencyPresident ObamaStimulusGovernment SpendingNew GovernmentGovernment Agencies Author:Paul Ryan
“The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.” WayCan DoMilitaryBalanceTaxesIncreaseMirrorsSpendingBudgetsDecreaseMilitary Spending Author:John B. Anderson
“President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.” KindTwoPresidentHalfPlansApproachIncreaseDollarsDebtSpendingDecadesPresident ObamaBalancedRevenueReductionBipartisan Author:William J. Clinton
“If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.” IfsBigsTaxesIncreaseSpendingTax Increases Author:Pat Toomey
“I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.” WantWellsDoeStatesCommunityAchieveDevelopmentResearchIncreaseSpendingWelfareWelfare StateSynthesisResearch And DevelopmentDynamism Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.” ThinkingWayWarGovernmentUsedNextLevelsStepsEconomyCuttingHigherTaxesBiggerIncreaseSpendingEmploymentOccasionsUnemploymentInflationDoseRecessionsNext StepsHigher LevelGovernment SpendingCandour Author:James Callaghan