Roseanne Barr Quotes

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

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

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

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

The progressive feature of the income tax is the most dangerous element of democracy.

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

Those who claim the economy will collapse if tax rates on the wealthy increase, do not know their history. In the Eisenhower Administration—and Eisenhower was hardly a left winger—the marginal tax rate was 91 percent. I am only suggesting that it go to 50 percent.

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.

I do not believe it would have been possible to have continued [wartime taxes] for the purpose of carrying on the American war … The question there is whether, under all these circumstances, it was not better to conclude the peace at the present moment, before the impatience of the country on the subject had been manifested at public meetings, or by motions in Parliament.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

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

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

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

I don't give my money to the government.

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.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

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.

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.