Fiscal Measures Quotes

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

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

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

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

Monetary policy and fiscal policy are inseparable.

To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers' national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies.

Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.