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And he has played up his image as "Veto Corleone" for his propensity to kill spending projects during his eight years as governor, ending in 2007.
The marginal propensity to spend is higher for low-income earners, which means giving a tax cut to someone on, say, $40,000 a year will have a greater positive effect of economic growth than giving the same sort of tax cut to someone on $300,000 a year.
As an American taxpayer, I've grown a little tired of the good senator's propensity for pork-barrel spending.
The "net effect" is neutral at best and, more likely negative, as the consumer doing the paying for the program has a higher "propensity" to spend and a much larger "discretionary budget" than the receiver.
The rhetorical thrust of a sharp distinction between the Tea Party's demand for big cuts and Obama's supposed propensity to spend has been a central tenet of the GOP's political messaging over the past two years.
When wealth increases, they spend more.An OECD study in 2004 put the marginal propensity to spend out of financial wealth at between 0.01 and 0.07 for rich countries: that is, if wealth rises by $1, spending rises by between one and seven cents.
It said: "Propensity to spend is increasing.
Americans' taxes should be cut for one overarching reason: to reduce the size of the federal government and stifle its propensity to spend whatever is at hand.
Still, the ability to recover may be limited by a rise in unemployment, which may undermine consumers' propensity to spend.
