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  • Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

    War   Cutting   Thinking  
    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.232, Best Books on
  • Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

  • I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

    Letter to Henry Lee, 13 Apr. 1790
  • The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

    Children   School   Two  
  • Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

    Issues   Promise   Doe  
  • If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics
  • We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.

    Dollars   Rising   Debt  
    "Divine Debt Trumps All" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 20, 2009.
  • It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

    Teaching   Games   Play  
  • Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

    Debt   Remember   Danger  
    George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9
  • Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

    Legacy   Debt   Economics  
  • In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.

    Bill Press (2008). “Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)”, p.192, John Wiley & Sons
  • The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  • I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.404
  • Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

    Money   Mean   Conceited  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics
  • When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

    Errors   Able   Causes  
    Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press
  • The current tax code is a daily mugging.

  • A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

    Source: articles.latimes.com
  • In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

  • By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

    Country   Food   Wine  
  • My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

    Humor   Play   Political  
  • Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

    Country   Jobs   Talking  
    "Gingrich Picks Up Endorsement From J.C. Watts". "Hannity" with Mark Steyn, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2011.
  • Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

    Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”
  • As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

    George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.36, New York : J. Wiley
  • At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

    Dream   Wisdom   Blessing  
    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.239
  • It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

    "The Works of Alexander Hamilton".
  • I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

    Andrew Jackson, Sam B. Smith, Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley, Harold D. Moser (1996). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824”, p.399, Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

    George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.146, e-artnow sro
  • We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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