Economic Burden Quotes

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

Social Security is a cruel hoax … unjust, unworkable … and wastefully financed.

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 % more than the total price tag for defeating both Germany and Japan in World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Many believe that Welfare has destroyed millions of families and cost a huge portion of our national wealth in the process.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly “thinking people” who do remarkably little thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression. In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform. If not, Trump will not only become part of the Washington status quo on the issue, but will leave burdensome and expensive problems for future generations.

Higher energy prices act like a tax.

The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

You will be put under the heel of a majority which, if greater than you in numbers, is most undoubtedly inferior to you in political knowledge and experience …. You the wealthy, the orderly, the industrious, the enterprising portion of Ireland are to supply money for the that part of Ireland which is less orderly, less industrious, less enterprising and less law-abiding …

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.

The real fear of South Koreans … is that the financial price would ruin them. Reuniting Korea would likely cost more than reunifying Germany did…

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

Every time you exempt a portion of the economy from taxation you put pressure on the rest of the economy.

The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.

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.