Democratic Party Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

it would be nice to have low taxes, but we have to pay our bills in this country.

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

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

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

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

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

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.

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.

The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

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.

Government is just spending too much money.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.