Richard Cobden Quotes

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

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.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not, perhaps, happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure.

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

I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

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.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

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.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.