Burden Quote by Milton Friedman

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

— Orville Dewey

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

“Query government spending.”

— Steven Magee

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

“Inflation is taxation without representation.”

— Milton Friedman

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

— Gregory D Hess

“Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself…

— Henry Hazlitt

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,…

— Dick Armey

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

— Barack Obama

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four…

— Benjamin Franklin

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

— Carly Fiorina

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

— James Otis