Attitude Quote by James M. Buchanan

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

— Grover Norquist

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

— Milton Friedman

If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.

— Irwin Schiff

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because…

— Grover Norquist

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

— Gregory D Hess

Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but…

— Donald Trump

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

— John Templeton

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

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim…

— Mark McKinnon

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather…

— John Maynard Keynes

The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting spending patterns…

— Robert H. Frank

People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj