Economist Quotes and aphorisms about spending Lars Feld Alan Greenspan ,, Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've g... Paul Samuelson 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