Richard Neal Quotes

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government.

The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

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.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

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.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

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.

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

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

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.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

... with a cash machine like an income tax, the state legislature will go wild and go on a spending spree.

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

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

We must get rid of deficit spending which finances the political schemes of today by mortgaging the future of tomorrow.

it would be nice to have low taxes, but we have to pay our bills in this country.

When you’re spending 24 billion dollars in pork barrel transportation projects how can you go to the American people and talk about tax increases.

Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.