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

— Milton Friedman

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough…

— Ronald Reagan

“Tax increases don’t eliminate deficits they increase govt. spending.”

— Ronald Reagan

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes…

— John Spratt

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.

— Steve Mnuchin

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

— Ronald Reagan

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

— Allan H. Meltzer

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

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

Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.

— Dianne Feinstein

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.

— Alan Patricof