Government Quote by Tom Wicker Download Open image “Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.” — Tom Wicker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Murphys law Politics Revenue
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have commonly demands… — James Smith Copy Share Image
The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength. — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image