Michelle Malkin Quotes

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

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

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

I do not pretend to step out of my own sphere and to control the internal management of other departments, but it seems to me that as Secretary of the Treasury, I may ask, that, while peace continues, the aggregate of the expenditure of those departments be kept within bounds such as will preserve the equilibrium between the national revenue and expenditure without recurrence to loans.

You can always raise taxes on the rich, but that will not solve the deficit problem.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.

I worry that we're seeing a situation- Obama's administration not only committing us the huge deficits for the future, but is also redefining the relationship between government, on the one hand, and the private sector on the other.

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

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

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.

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.

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.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.

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.

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

There are no uncontrollable outlays except for debt interest. Outlays are what they are due to legislation.

As a general rule, the demands of the current year, especially in time of peace, should be provided for by the revenues of that year.