It doesn’t cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don’t have, but that’s another issue. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald’s and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn’t afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are needed in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy. This must include changing our government’s long-term fiscal path, which is unsustainable. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It’s tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It’s a misallocation of resources. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn’t afford the premiums or couldn’t afford the copay. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
I’ve never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers’ money. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn’t help the farmer pick his peaches this summer. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
