#fiscal

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#barack #barack obama #clearest #current #cut

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

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When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

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Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#challenges #democratic #each #educational #face

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. ↗

— Tom Harkin

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We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

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You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

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Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

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