Edith Sitwell Quotes

Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

To tax and be loved is not given man.

Taken to its logical extreme, the Laffer curve makes no sense because, if you lower your taxes to zero, how are you going to get higher revenues? In practice, every government that toyed with this theory ended up with larger deficits, higher interest rates and greater social inequality.

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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

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.

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

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

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

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

When government grows, it breaks the family.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.