Taxes Quotes by Milton Friedman

How do you hold down government spending?

— Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

— Milton Friedman

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

— Milton Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

— Milton Friedman

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

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

— Milton Friedman

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more…

— Milton Friedman

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

— Milton Friedman

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

— Milton Friedman

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We…

— Milton Friedman

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because…

— Milton Friedman

Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with…

— Milton Friedman

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company…

— Milton Friedman

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two…

— Milton Friedman

What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many…

— Milton Friedman

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason…

— Milton Friedman

Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every…

— Milton Friedman

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised…

— Milton Friedman

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic…

— Milton Friedman

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is…

— Milton Friedman