Fiscal Policy Philosopher Pillows

'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.'

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

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

'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.

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

"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."

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

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

The rich, the poor and the terrorist...

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

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

The Tobin Tax.

'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.'

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

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

"Those taxpayers are real extremists."

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

"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.'

'It's your debt to society.'

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

Debt Ceiling and False Ceiling.

'I just thought of something that will drive tax-payers crazy.'

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

'I just found out that our credit union is illusory!'