Matt Gaetz Quotes

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.

To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner of later it adds up to real money.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

I think it's incumbent upon elected officials to make sure that, if we're going to demand more tax money from people, that we use it in a productive manner and not just say, 'This is what we're going to use it for,' and then they find out that it was used for something else and sometimes something very frivolous.

When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government. And that's close to 40 percent of our national income.