Paying taxes Quote by Mitt Romney

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

— Tim Kaine

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector…

— Sarah Palin

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

— Henry Paulson

We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so…

— Mick Mulvaney

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden…

— Milton Friedman

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes…

— John Spratt

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

— Anonymous

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

— Ronald Reagan