Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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

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

Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of government.

The great middle class basically pays the bills of our society through the taxes.

The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.

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

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

After saying the jobs bill is paid for, President Obama now says that it will be paid for by raising taxes over 10 years. I can't figure out if he's the kind of guy who makes infomercials, or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials.

There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

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

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

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.

When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have...