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Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Activity Credits Cuts Economic Economic Activity Expenditures Fiscal Implemented Increases Little Markets Much Other Policy Respond Should So-Called Spending Tax Them Through

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Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: American Benefits Credit Earned Expenditures Income Income Tax Just Like Loopholes Middle Tax Thought Working-Class

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Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Also Balance Because Benefits Budget Create Cuts Economy Employment Expenditures Government Help Higher Incentive Incomes Increase Lower Means Other Output Production Programs Reduced Reducing Resulting Social Social Welfare Tax Tax Cuts Unemployment Welfare

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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

~Bob Barr

Topics: After Case Clothed Cut Either Expenditures Fairness Governments Increase Internet Issue Match Matters Move Name Often Revenues Sales Tax Tax Increase Typical Unwilling Used Whether

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Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.

~Bruce Rauner

Topics: Across Allowed Bargaining Campaign Donations Expenditures Government Influence Lobbying Officials Public Should Sitting Table Through Unions

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Expenditures rise to meet income.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Expenditures Income Meet Rise

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Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

~Chaka Fattah

Topics: Children Cost Debt Expenditures Grandchildren Limit Now Our Pay Raising Times Trillion Up Will

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The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.

~Charles T. Canady

Topics: Building Business Construction Dignified Does Done Durable Expenditures Extravagant Functional Grandiose Important Investment Justify Long-Term Luxurious Monumental Public Should Where

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There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

~Chuck Schumer

Topics: Charitable Deduction Expenditures Good Homes Important Loophole Obvious Policy Reasons Some Tax Very Whether

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More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Balance Closer Expenditures Government Helps Little More More People Move Paying People Taxes Us Working

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