Kathy Szeliga Quotes

Government spending is not wasteful. The question is, “Is it necessary?”

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

People understand that they can spend their money better than the government can.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Government is just spending too much money.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

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

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered.

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

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

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.

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

Back home in Maine people tend to think that there should be a balance between money coming in and money going out in their own lives, in their businesses and the Federal government.

Every dime spent is a political decision made.

A budget must be more than a ledger sheet. It should have a heart and serve as a blueprint for a better quality of life for all residents.

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

If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.