All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“So it's still standing? I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night?… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump's tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4. — John Ensign Copy Share Image
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump pledged to eliminate our national debt 'over a period of eight years.' Now two… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know, the first-born is usually the anal worrier, but somehow my brother and I reversed roles on that. He’s chill… — George Crowder Copy Share Image
What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Going back in time is impossible. Turning invisible is impossible. Balancing the national debt is impossible. Blood sucking creatures that have been… — Jillian Eaton Copy Share Image
The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“The country was lumbering towards election day. Strike turned in early on Sunday and watched the day's gaffes, counterclaims and promises being… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the… — Michael Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not… — Ron Estes Copy Share Image
I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt]. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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