Jesse Ventura Quotes

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.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

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

Government is just spending too much money.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

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

What the government gives it must first take away.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another

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

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

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 should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

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

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

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government

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

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

For government to give, it must first take away.

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.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

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.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

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.