Annastacia Palaszczuk Quotes

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

As a general rule, the demands of the current year, especially in time of peace, should be provided for by the revenues of that year.

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'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

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.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

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

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

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?'

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

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

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.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

The deficit had become a symbol of our inability to control and manage the cost of government.

A budget is a moral document of a nation’s priorities.

Balanced budgets have a lot to do with National Defense.

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

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.