“American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.” WayShouldGovernmentLastsRememberPoliticsPoliticianVoteDollarsCongressInvisibleBudgetsExpensesVotersBottlesFederal GovernmentAlcoholicsTaxpayersWhiskeySurplusCupboardsAmerican Voters Author:Ron Paul
“Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out” FunnyMoneyPoliticianTaxpayersTreasuryHamilton Author:Will Rogers
“Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.” WantProblemGovernmentStepsPolicyExamplePoliticianEconomicsClaimsRateAffairFinancialCreditDebtExpensesTaxpayersMortgagePunditsCreditorsBailCrunchGovernment PolicyBorrowersForeclosureMarket FailureFinancial ProblemsCredit Crunch Author:Walter E. Williams
“Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.” RememberPoliticianVoteInvisibleExpensesTaxpayers Author:Ron Paul
“To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.” GovernmentWinningPayPlansGenerationsPoliticianCostEuropeElectionLeavingDebtSpendingEndlessCoveredTaxpayersGovernment SpendingCovered Up Author:David Malpass
“A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.” MenArtPoliticianCreatingIllusionMen And WomenAdvantageDollarsRewardsBillionsWinnerManipulationTaxpayersCampaigningComparative Advantage Author:John Stossel
“When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.” Has BeensCountryStatesEnoughBigsWinningLosesGriefPaySupportPoliticianTaxesBenefitsConcernedVoteCongressWelfareVotingDeficitTaxpayersWelfare StateWin Win Author:Thomas Sowell
“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.” WayMeanTwoFoundPracticeSourcePoliticianAbandonedTaxationTaxpayersTwo Ways Author:H. L. Mencken