David Stockman Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

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

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

Taxes are always too high.

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.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

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.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

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.

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

I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.

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

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.

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

The American people want more from government than they are willing to pay for in taxes.