George William Russell Quotes

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

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

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

The power of the purse is the only real power of government.

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

We want to decide how we control our borders, our money, our economy, our currency.

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.

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

Federal spending is atrocious.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.