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William Vickrey

"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."

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"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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Akiroq Brost

"You measure a government by how few people need help."

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"It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."

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William Vickrey
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."

Economy

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William Vickrey
"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief."

Balance

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William Vickrey
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."

Government

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William Vickrey
"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."

Job

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William Vickrey
"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

Gain

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William Vickrey
"There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment."

Reason

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William Vickrey
"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."

Job

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William Vickrey
"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."

Government

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William Vickrey
"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."

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William Vickrey
"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."

Performance

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