“Tax increases don’t eliminate deficits they increase govt. spending.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You cant tax business. Business doesnt pay taxes. It collects taxes. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
