Jason Chaffetz Quotes

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until someone is asked to pay the bill.

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

Congress have an unlimited power to raise money ... restricted only by the duty to appropriate it to the purpose of common defense and of general, not local; national, not State benefit.

Tell Congress to go home and make an honest living instead of riding on the backs of the taxpayers.

Government spending is not wasteful. The question is, “Is it necessary?”

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.