Economy quotations

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◆ Cheap booze is a false economy.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

- Joe Biden99

◆ Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won't get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The power to tax is the power to destroy.

- John Marshall99

◆ Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

- Joel Salatin99

◆ Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

- Cintra Wilson99

◆ Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

- Ayn Rand99

◆ How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

- John Maynard Keynes99

◆ You'll know the economy is dead when industry stops and escalators turn into stairs. That'll be the day slinkies take over the world.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

- Ha-Joon Chang99

◆ Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

- George Monbiot99

◆ Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow's book buyers for today's dollars, especially when it's obvious that the source in question doesn't have any more dollars to give you.

- Courtney Milan99