Quotes about Government

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.