{"id":4038,"date":"2013-05-03T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2013-05-03T08:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:07:48","slug":"10-quotes-on-government-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"10 quotes on government spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n  <w:Compatibility>\n   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n  <\/w:Compatibility>\n  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n <\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0cm;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cGovernment does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.\u201d \u2013 Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cThe real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever-rising tax rates to cover ever-rising spending.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Sowell<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cDeficits 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.\u201d \u2013 Ron Paul<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cGovernment does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem\u2026 it is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.\u201d \u2013 Marsha Blackburn<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cIncreased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output, but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or required higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.\u201d \u2013 Martin Feldstein<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cBorrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.\u201d \u2013 Paul Ryan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cEconomy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Huxley<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cLower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.\u201d \u2013 Larry Elder<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\u201cGovernment is taking 40 percent of the GDP. 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