Nina Easton Quotes

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

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Federal spending is atrocious.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working.

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

The closest thing you ever get to a cut is a decrease in the rate of increase of government spending.

Never in the nation’s history had a president proposed large, simultaneous spending increases and tax cuts when the federal budget already had a deficit.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

President Obama has contempt for real money.

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

How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.