David Leonhardt Quotes

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Taxes are the lifeblood of Government

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

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

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

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

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

When the income tax was passed, that provided a virtual unlimited supply of money for government.

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

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

The power to tax is the power to govern.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.