Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitra...
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosio...
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.
If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.
I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that mon...
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, i...
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.
And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.
I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and...
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
