Mian Muhammad Mansha Quotes

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.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

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.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

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

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

What the government gives it must first take away.

A bad tax is one that is wastefully and poorly spent.

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

After a while if you have low enough taxes you'll be bankrupt.

A national debt, properly funded and serviced, can be a potent instrument of national policy.

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

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

We always sat down as a family to watch the federal budget, even as a young child.

The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

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