Margaret Thatcher Quotes

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

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

Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people.

Socialism is easily understood by any child. It is taking other people's stuff.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution.

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

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

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.

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.

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it.

Socialism is a wonderful form of government until you run out of other people’s money.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.