George Soros Quotes

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.

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.

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.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold to which it can go to get what it gives you. The government has not one cent that it does not take from your pockets. Do not imagine, do not believe, do not go on the theory that you are not to pay this bill, unless the fundamentals of our government are to be overturned.

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?

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

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.

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

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.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of government.

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

If we just charged everyone one percent of the value of contracts they execute, that is all the money we would need for operating our government.

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

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

Budget issues consume bureaucrats because an adequate budget which is generally defined as an increase over the previous … year, is a reflection of the operational capacity, current health, importance, and future prospects of an organization.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.