Margaret Thatcher Quotes

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

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 want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.

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.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

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

Government is just spending too much money.

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

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

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

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

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

We have a dangerous tendency. Roughly half the people in the country pay little of no taxes. These people who are disproportionate beneficiaries of government programs are in favor of more government programs.

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

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

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

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

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

Because of fiscal responsibility, we will keep taxes low and maintain important priorities like IPERS.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

There is no need to increase the taxes. India can run without troubling the citizens.