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  • Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

    Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group
  • I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

    Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.179, Best Books on
  • Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

    Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books
  • The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

    Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.424, Simon and Schuster
  • The current tax code is a daily mugging.

  • What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

  • If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

  • Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

    Ronald Reagan's Lettert to Richard Nixon, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 1984.
  • I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.

  • Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

  • You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.

  • History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

    Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon
  • Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

  • Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.

  • People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.

  • When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

    Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group
  • The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

  • The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

    Attributed to Ronald Reagan in "Conservatives betrayed: how George W. Bush and other big government republicans hijacked the Conservative cause" by Richard A. Viguerie (p. 43),
  • No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

    A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
  • Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

    Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books
  • Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

  • ...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.

  • Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

    Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986
  • If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

    Speech regarding planned Democratic tax hikes, as quoted in "WASHINGTON TALK; Eliot Ness to Vanna White", New York Times, www.nytimes.com. July 16, 1987.
  • We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

    Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books
  • The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

  • I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

    Remarks to American Business Conference, Washington, D.C., 13 Mar. 1985 See Film Lines 164
  • Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

    Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co
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    Ronald Reagan

    • Born: February 6, 1911
    • Died: June 5, 2004
    • Occupation: 40th U.S. President