Stephen Moore Quotes

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The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.
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At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.
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Trumponomics is Obamanomics in reverse.
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Obama’s economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
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Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don’t even do that.
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Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.
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If I’ve learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.
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Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.
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The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama’s stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothingaccording to the Obama administration’s own analysis. So we got $9 trillion of debt with almost nothing to pay for it.
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In a world without an Ex-Im Bank, which finances just 2 percent of U.S. exports, private firms would provide the insurance and credit these companies need, but at market rates that reflect risk of default.
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The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.
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Blue staters tend to send liberal politicians to office, who then vote for bigger federal spending – even though a greater share of the money goes to the red states.
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Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.
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Whenever I’m asked if the Trump tax cut is for the rich, I say yes. It is a tax cut for the rich. It is a tax cut for the middle class. It is a tax cut for small businesses. It is a tax cut for the Fortune 100.
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It’s very important to the conservative movement to be rid of the Ex-Im Bank.
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The job market improved impressively under Barack Obama’s presidency after the Great Recession, when millions of jobs vanished seemingly overnight.
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Every dollar a foreigner spends over here directly subtracts a dollar from the trade deficit.
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The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.
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Occupational licensing laws – in trades like moving companies, realtors, hair dressers, limousine services, beauticians, physical therapy, and on and on – stunt small business start ups, destroy jobs, and raise prices for lower-income consumers.
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The elimination of deductibility of state and local taxes will also encourage more privatization of municipal services.
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Liberals complain that coal activity isn’t a major producer of jobs because the industry is producing a lot more coal with a lot fewer workers. That is absolutely true. Ladies and gentlemen, that is called productivity.
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Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.
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The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.
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My father built a small business from scratch with years and years of sweat equity and many, many weeks away from home. He employed about 50 people, and by the end of his working years, the business was highly successful. He became a millionaire.
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Venus Williams is a multi-millionaire not in spite of the fact that she is a woman, but precisely because she’s a woman. She receives much higher pay than an equally skilled man. Isn’t that precisely the opposite of what is meant by pay equity?
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The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.
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Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills that can make a low income or middle class worker a high income worker. This is so obvious that one wonders why liberals keep championing the minimum wage cause.
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Using cheap and efficient energy makes every other American industry more productive, and thus makes American employers far more competitive in global markets. Productivity creates higher paying jobs in America; it doesn’t destroy them.
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The climate-change industrial complex pontificates that the U.S. has to stop using coal to save the planet. But even if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending American coal production, we are merely transferring jobs out of the U.S.
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For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn’t there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.
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Increases in output generally lead to lower prices, not higher prices.
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The rich did well under Obama’s policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn’t grow as it usually does.
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The Fed’s job is not to stall growth or to prevent economic ‘overheating.’ It is to keep prices stable and the dollar a strong and reliable currency.
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Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves to have as much predictive power as a deck of tarot cards.
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A merit-based system will reward great public servants, and getting rid of the shirkers will improve morale and the pride of our federal workers. It will attract better workers to run our agencies.
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Borrowing isn’t inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing.
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The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would be a vast improvement over the Obama agenda, which was almost in every case – from tax increases to spending stimulus bills to Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the war on fossil fuels, and so on – bad for growth.
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Whenever there is an international crisis – an earthquake, a flood, a war – Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.
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Too often, we say that the Left is wrong but well-intentioned. Some are. But most simply want government to control other people’s lives, and they believe in Stalinistic methods to achieve that goal.
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The countries in the Paris climate accord have broken almost every promise they’ve made, and the nation (the U.S.) that hasn’t signed the treaty is doing more than any other nation to reduce global warming.
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Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He’s copied a lot of the Reagan playbook: Deregulate, cut taxes, promote American energy.
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If the goal of the Trump tax cut is to make America look more like tax-cutting North Carolina and less like soak-the-rich Connecticut and Illinois, he’s certainly on the right track.
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