Quotes About Government

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.

The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We're going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we're going to stay the Golden State.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.

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

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

Our current tax system is broken.

I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better.

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

I believe reduced spending, lower taxation, and economic growth go hand-in-hand.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.