Government Quote by Margaret Thatcher

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you…

— Rafael Cruz

The money that government spends is your money, not government's, and you know how to spend it better.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

— Margaret Thatcher

The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue…

— Jesse Taylor

Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value…

— Robert Higgs

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

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

— Stephen Moore

It is incumbent upon taxpayer advocates in elected office to call out unnecessary spending when they see it.

— Michelle Steel

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to…

— Matthew Continetti

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows,…

— Will Rogers

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