Liz Truss Quotes

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

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

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

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.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits.

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

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

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

A mature welfare state is always broke.

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

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government

We want the benefits of government services ranging from security in our old age to the best national defense possible, but we scream when the bill for these services comes due in the form of higher taxes.

How can one govern without taxes, without strength, without authority?

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

Too many people on the Left think that, when you move a chunk of money away from people for entitlements, that the money magically reappears and that discretionary spending will be unaffected.

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.