John Linder Quotes

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

A mature welfare state is always broke.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.

Too many people on the Left think that, when you move a chunk of money away from people for entitlements, that the money magically reappears and that discretionary spending will be unaffected.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

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.

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

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

I wouldn't minimize the avoidance of tax increases as a contribution to human welfare.

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

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

To deal with entitlements we must either raise taxes, cut benefits, or borrow inordinate amounts of money.

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.