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Government-sponsored health care

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ObamacareTags P. J. O’Rourke

Not jokes, but facts

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Will Rogers

Government’s view of the economy

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories taxationTags Ronald Reagan

The fiction of government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Frederic Bastiat

Government responsibility

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories economics, governmentTags P. J. O’Rourke

Foreign aid

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories foreign policyTags Douglas Casey

Democracy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags James Bovard

Liberal spending

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories welfareTags G. Gordon Liddy

Robbing through taxes

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories taxationTags George Bernard Shaw

Taxation for prosperity

I 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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories taxationTags Winston Churchill

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