Debt Quote by Henry Hazlitt

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

— Bobby Scott

In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be…

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Grover Norquist

Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers…

— Ron Paul

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

— George Soros

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

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never…

— Arthur Laffer

If you raise taxes on the rich, you don't raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is…

— Richard Quest

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to…

— Mitch Daniels

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because…

— Bill Ayers

It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have commonly demands…

— James Smith