Fiscal Decisions Quotes

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

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.

Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we will end up in affluent misery.

People care about their financial futures, and politics is very much a part of that.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.

In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

People who wouldn’t think of raising taxes think there’s nothing wrong with mortgaging the future of their state

The easiest things to do in Congress are to cut taxes and raise spending.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.

I don't know if there's ever been a budget that anyone has been 100 percent happy with.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

If you build a stadium, you don’t build a school. Indeed, you don’t build fifty schools.