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Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

~Brian Sandoval

Topics: Bankruptcy Businesses Create Cure Government Government Spending Helping Jobs More Spending Unemployment

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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

~Bruce Rauner

Topics: Conflicting Government Government Spending Higher Higher Taxes Lot Spending Taxes Things Voters Want

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Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Able American American People Being Decades Effectively Eliminate Even Far Gone Government Government Spending Leaving Less Many People Possibly Programs Rethink Review Spending Too Without Years

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American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

~Charles Boustany

Topics: Again American American Workers Businesses Competitive Entrepreneurs Government Government Spending Make More Need Plan Simply Small Small Businesses Spending Workers

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Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.

~Chris Chocola

Topics: Any Believe Compound Congress Creating Disaster Duty Emergency Ensure Event Fiscal Government Government Spending Having Katrina Must National Natural Natural Disaster Other Our Reign Said Spending Time I Believe

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If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Blow Budget Coming Congressional Deficit Forward Go Going Government Government Spending Healthcare Hole Look Number Office One Thing Out Spending Studies Thing Years You

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The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Accepted Basic Certainly Cut Economics Economy Every Government Government Spending Idea Increase Our People Rate Spending Stimulates Taxes Teach Textbook Them Truth Try Unemployment Very Widely You

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The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Act American Businesses Cuts Direct Families Government Government Spending Increased Infrastructure Insurance Investment Known Legislation Like Mixture Payments Recovery Spending Stimulus Tax Tax Cuts Technically Transfer Unemployment

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To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

~David Malpass

Topics: Cost Covered Debt Elections Endless Europe Generations Government Government Spending Leaving Neither Nor Obligated Off Pay Plan Politicians Practically Promised Spending Stop Taxpayers Up Win Wrong

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Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs.

~Elaine Chao

Topics: American Big Concerned Doing Good Good Jobs Government Government Spending Jobs Less Looking Lower Lower Taxes Most Outside Spending Taxes Things Washington

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