Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

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.

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.

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.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

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.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

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

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 got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

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