Robert Walpole Quotes

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

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Taxes are never popular.

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president - has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

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

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

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.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Taxes grow without rain.

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.