Expenditures Quote by Steve Ballmer

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

— Chris Chocola

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going…

— Anonymous

We have historically tended to run fairly steady levels of government tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product and expenditures at around 20%.

— Scott Bessent

We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on…

— Bruce Rauner

I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate to have…

— Brad Schneider

If you talk to a lot of people in government, they will talk about the pathway to getting something done rather than the thing…

— Bill de Blasio

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

— Bill Bradley

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to…

— Holly Sklar

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

— John Boehner

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

— Erna Solberg

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

— Caroline Mulroney