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Fiscal policy   /fˈɪskəl pˈɑləsi/   Listen
Fiscal policy

noun
1.
A government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing).





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"Fiscal policy" Quotes from Famous Books



... present system? I must dwell on this even at the risk of appearing tiresome, because there is so much misunderstanding on the subject. In the eyes of the advocates of the present system, the statesman, or at any rate the British statesman, when he approaches fiscal policy, is confronted with the choice of Hercules. He is placed, like the rider in the old legend, between the black and the white horseman. On the one hand is an angel of light called Free Trade; on the other a limb of Satan called Protection. The one is entirely ...
— Constructive Imperialism • Viscount Milner
... democratic government. This national government - based on proportional representation similar to that which existed in the former socialist regime - is charged with conducting foreign, economic, and fiscal policy. The Dayton Agreement also recognized a second tier of government, comprised of two entities - a joint Bosniak/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska (RS) - each presiding over roughly one-half the territory. ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... There cannot be free trade in the United States so long as the established fiscal policy of the federal government is maintained. The federal government has chosen throughout all the generations that have preceded us to maintain itself chiefly on indirect instead of direct taxation. I dare say we shall never see a time ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson
... he answered. "If ever there was an honest doubter, I am one. If I had never left my study, England could not have contained a more rabid opponent of any change in our fiscal policy than I. I am like a small boy who is absolutely sure that he has worked out his sum correctly, but finds the answer is not the one which his examiner expects. There is something wrong somewhere. I want, if I can, to discover it. I only want the truth! I don't see why ...
— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim


Words linked to "Fiscal policy" :   economic policy


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