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

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

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.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.