Margaret Thatcher Quotes

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

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.

Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold to which it can go to get what it gives you. The government has not one cent that it does not take from your pockets. Do not imagine, do not believe, do not go on the theory that you are not to pay this bill, unless the fundamentals of our government are to be overturned.

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

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

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.

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

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

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

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

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

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

to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of government.

The country needs a gas tax.... That's good for the country.... What's good for the country is good for Chrysler.

Congress have an unlimited power to raise money ... restricted only by the duty to appropriate it to the purpose of common defense and of general, not local; national, not State benefit.

Governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.