Quotes About Government

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Magna carta. Master charga.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.