Jose Cecilio Diaz del Valle Quotes

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

The best legislator is the one who votes for all appropriations and against all taxes.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

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

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

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

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

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

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.

Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children. It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

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.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.