Country Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

— Ronald Reagan

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume…

— John Redwood

This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.

— Charles Boustany

People are taxed enough.

— Doug Ford

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it…

— Alexander Hamilton

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to…

— Gore Vidal

Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically…

— Leonard Read

It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due…

— Jose Angel Gurria

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

— Grover Norquist

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available…

— Milton Friedman

The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes.

— Gregory D Hess

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy