Every man Quote by John Stossel

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly…

— Thomas Frank

“From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent of the…

— Milton Friedman

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

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

Every dollar the government doesn't spend, tax, or borrow is a dollar that businesses and families can spend or invest themselves.

— Stephen Moore

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes…

— Pat Toomey

“And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan’s eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from…

— Rachel Maddow

During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they…

— G. Edward Griffin

Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year…

— Robert Higgs

The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in.…

— Nancy Pelosi

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25…

— Pat Toomey

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt…

— Matt Salmon