Alex Tabarrok Quotes

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

If we're talking about big-tent thinking in the Republican Party, I think we're all going to unite under a consistent economic theory. That's where our unity is, and that's what unites us.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

You don't have to kill the economy to regulate it.

They [the conservative Republicans] have tried to sell us this trickle down fairy dust before.

The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.