To ensure its stimulative effect, he would abandon for now the imperative of offsetting tax increases.
"It has a short-term stimulative effect in terms of jobs and consumer spending.
The tax cut "had exactly the stimulative effect we thought it would.
Such taxpayers are less likely to spend their savings, and such cuts therefore have less stimulative effect.
"There are proposals on both sides that have no immediate stimulative effect," Senator Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania Republican, said recently.
That output soared despite these factors suggests that increases in government spending had a powerful stimulative effect.
Few pleasures are as reliable, as intimate, and as portable as smoking a cigarette, and the pleasure goes well beyond the stimulative effect of nicotine.
Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, said, "There's a consensus that we need to do something that will have a stimulative effect".
Avishai's post, worth reading in full, goes on to put the Volt in a much wider context, including the car's likely stimulative effect on the smart-grid infrastructure.
Supporters of the administration insist that certain forms of tax relief favored by the White House would have a big stimulative effect.
"Those who talk about the stimulative effect, you're talking about small drops in a huge sea," said Representative Sander M. Levin, Democrat of Michigan.
