#surplus

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#bad thing #being #capital #country #deficit

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american #american people #any #ensures #people

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#back #balance #countries #days #deficits

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#illogical #oppressive #our #revenues #surplus

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid. ↗

— John Spratt

#amount #bottom #bottom line #cut #cuts

Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media (like the phone) has now expanded to include a third option: two-way media that operates on a scale from private to public. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#movies

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#administer #bound #community #good #his

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. ↗

— James Buchan

#assertive #commodities #crude #crude oil #dictation

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#achieve #budget #clinton #despite #divided

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#catch #deity #designed #dog #kind