William Cibes Quotes

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

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

Government is just spending too much money.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

it would be nice to have low taxes, but we have to pay our bills in this country.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

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 can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

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

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

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 think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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

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

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

When the income tax was passed, that provided a virtual unlimited supply of money for government.

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.

Rail against taxes of all kinds.

Anybody can balance a budget if they raise taxes.