Yophy Huang, a researcher at the Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research, says that a policy of "priming the pump" -using large fiscal outlays to jump-start the economy in the expectation that growth will return new revenues to the government that more than make up the initial costs-is only appropriate when the government's own financial situation is sound, since it doesn't necessarily work.
中經院副研究員黃耀輝指出，為了提振景氣而擴大財政支出、希望用錢養出一隻「金雞母」的想法，只有在國家財務狀況良好時才適用。