Fiscal Policy Philosopher Gifts

'What came first - tax and spend or spend and tax?'

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

'Sorry guys... budget cuts !'

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

"Defense budget... Do you have any idea how much catnip $700 billion would buy?"

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

'Let's go home and come back next year. It's Ground Hog Deficit!'

'We were in the right place at the right time but, unfortunately, we were in the wrong time zone.'

'Well they often get it wrong.'

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

Your son has a genetic inability to calculate. This forecasts for him a brilliant career in the Ministry of Finance.

"The red bars represent the obscene numbers this quarter. The black bars are censoring those red bars."

Budgetmageddon

'I think you need to reboot your fiscal compass.'

"Hey, I just got a burst of consumer confidence- let's go buy something."

"Financial Adviser advises client 'I advise you that you're broke'."

"I worry that we're headed for a future where you won't be able to earn three hundred times the salary of your lowest paid worker."

Today's sermon: 'Do sin taxes violate the seperation of church & state?'

The rich, the poor and the terrorist...

'After only a few years in the market I had a small fortune - unfortunately I'd started out with a big one.'

'Should the U.S. motto be, 'In for a buck, in for a trillion'?'

EU Budget: '5% more and you're home free!'

"If we were a business - rather than a government - we'd be bankrupt!"

"All agreed? We buy low and sell high."

"Those taxpayers are real extremists."

'Please help me! Every payday, I get robbed some gangsters called 'Fiscal Authority'!

'Sorry, you must have the wrong person, I don't pay income tax.'

The Tobin Tax.

"And please let Alan Greenspan accept the things he cannot change, give him the courage to change the things he can and the wisdom to know the difference."

'Greenspan today explained the reason the Fed faises interest rates is so they can lower them again.'

"Actually we're one of the few businesses that enjoy VAT visits."

'It's your debt to society.'

"Love you, love us, and I'm comfortable with our debt level."

Euro crisis bailout.

'Grible is a fiscal conservative. You know — 'if it ain't broke, don't subsidize it.''