Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

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?

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.

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.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

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.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

As it is necessary, that imposts should be levied, for the support of government, it may be thought more convenient to lay them on foreign commodities, which can easily be intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

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

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

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.

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

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 rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.