Stephen Moore Quotes

Stephen Moore

Profession : Writer

Birth : February 16, 1960

Tariffs have almost never saved a domestic industry from decline and, often times, by sheltering domestic producers from competition, only reward and prolong bad business practices.

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The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.

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More travel to America would lower our trade and budget deficits.

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I don't think anybody can reasonably say I am a sycophant for Trump, because I'm not.

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The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.

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There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is.

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Venus Williams is a multi-millionaire not in spite of the fact that she is a woman, but precisely because she's a woman. She receives much higher pay than an equally skilled man. Isn't that precisely the opposite of what is meant by pay equity?

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I hate women's basketball.

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Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America's Fortune 500 companies.

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In a world without an Ex-Im Bank, which finances just 2 percent of U.S. exports, private firms would provide the insurance and credit these companies need, but at market rates that reflect risk of default.

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It's very important to the conservative movement to be rid of the Ex-Im Bank.

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Sometimes it seems President Obama lives in a parallel universe where facts are floating around to be plucked out of suspended animation. Never more so than on the effects of the Affordable Care Act.

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The single best time to invest is at a young age because the dollar in the market today will likely be worth 10 to 50 times that much, after inflation, by the time you reach age 65.

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America should be about owning a piece of the rock, about letting every worker have equity and share in the returns to capital.

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If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

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Borrowing isn't inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing.

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Every dollar the government doesn't spend, tax, or borrow is a dollar that businesses and families can spend or invest themselves.

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America has the potential to lead the world in energy production and, in the process, to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in output - generating considerable tax revenue.

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Stacks of job-killing Executive Orders and regulations from the Obama era need to be repealed or rolled back. At the top of the stack is the Clean Power Plan, which has put tens of thousands of American coal miners out of work.

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