Amity Shlaes Quotes

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

I cannot, in conscience, agree or be party to the use of such anti-people policies as taxation.

People who wouldn’t think of raising taxes think there’s nothing wrong with mortgaging the future of their state

Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

When a totally offensive tax hits a few million people, Washington is prepared to look the other way. But when everyone is harmed, self preservation kicks in, and Washington gets going.

I'm against corporate welfare.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

We should get young people to be more concerned about our debt and point out to them that promising them more all the time is a completely unsustainable way of being and that it's a lie to say that the top one percent are going to pay for it.

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.

While millionaire Liberals like Justin Trudeau may want higher gas prices, hardworking Canadian families definitely do not.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

Would higher taxes and a crumbling economy help women succeed, either personally or professionally? I don't think so.

There is nothing inherently left-wing about young people in the U.K.

As the party that believes in economic freedom and low taxes, it is scandalous that we have presided over the tax burden rising for hardworking families and businesses.

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.