Accounts Quote by Mitch Daniels

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

— Herbert Hoover

Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

— Tim Murphy

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does…

— Rick Santelli

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax…

— Gary Johnson

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

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

— Tim Pawlenty

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

— Theresa May

Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.

— Pierre Poilievre

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

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

— Thomas Sowell