Always Quote by Murray Rothbard

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

— Jeb Hensarling

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

— Allan H. Meltzer

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant…

— George Will

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

— Anonymous

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are…

— Rand Paul

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits…

— Ron Paul

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

— Milton Friedman

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Taxpayers rightly expect the government to treat their money with the same care they would treat their own.

— Rachel Reeves

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

— Tom Harkin

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of…

— Grover Norquist