Ronald Reagan Quotes About Taxes

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Debt

  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),

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moving, Government, Views

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Needs, Spending, Taxes

• 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

  Taken, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Hangover, Thinking

• You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Pay, Taxes

• 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

  Mistake, Government, Years

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Men, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

• The current tax code is a daily mugging.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, National Debt, Currents

• Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Wealth

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Guy, Voting

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Want, Taxes, Ifs

• 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

  Funny, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

• The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Work, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Limits

• 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."

  Ronald Reagan

  Keys, Political, Dollars

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  July, America, Opponents

• 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

  Dream, Children, Reform

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

• No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

  Ronald Reagan

  Income, Burden, Taxes

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

• 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

  Brother, Government, Ideas

  Ronald Reagan's Lettert to Richard Nixon, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 1984.

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Taxation, Economics

  Remarks to American Business Conference, Washington, D.C., 13 Mar. 1985 See Film Lines 164

• People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Thinking, Government

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Citizens, Return

• 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

  Country, Dollars, Taxation

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

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