government spending

“I think the best way to think about government spending is that in every dollar there's probably 15 or 20 cents that actually does some good. There's probably 15 to 20 cents that's like on the margins break even. And then the rest of it, which is half of it is…”

“So basically there has been a net loss in private market jobs, net of the effect of government employment or government spending on companies that then use those dollars to go hire people.”

“The real cause of price inflation in food is not the supposed price gouging by corporate players in the ag and food industry, all of whom are deeply competitive with one another, but rather is the result of the inflation associated with government spending and…”

“What causes inflation is the printing of too much money. It's government spending too much. It is not corporate greed because corporate greed is a constant. It's not price gouging.”

“And the tipping point is when half or more of the population begins to be employed by the government, at which point that concept is lost. Because now it is the government that is the employer, not one's own individual liberties and ability to go out and be en…”

“So if you look at government spending, it's about half of GDP now. State, local, and federal, which roughly equates to about half of people in the United States are employed directly by government or indirectly because the government is the primary revenue sou…”

“I agree we have to cut government spending. I don't, I personally don't think it's recessionary. I think it helps the private sector when government gets cut.”

“It seems like growth does not come from government spending, right? That's like the key that this is this Keynesian economic argument that I think is basically wrong. Like growth comes from having like deregulation, having low cost energy, allow the private ma…”