Economist Quotes and aphorisms about government spending Arthur Laffer Arthur Laffer ,, What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there ... Thomas Sowell Murray Rothbard Robert Higgs ,, If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a... Robert Higgs David Malpass Martin Feldstein Christina Romer Christina Romer