(16 quotes found)
“The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers”
David Boaz
“Half the stories in every newspaper should be headlined 'Stop me before I legislate again”
“Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that's being talked about here, I don't know if there will ever have been a president who increased spending as fast as this one did.”
“Why are taxpayers in California and Texas and Massachusetts paying for a museum in Indianapolis?”
“Why is that [museum], No. 1, part of a highway bill and, No. 2, why is it part of a federal highway bill?”
“Some 6,000 special projects [in the transportation bill] are not getting any economic oversight”
“Bush is a big government president,”
“The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.”
“Social conservatives have discovered this is an issue you can win on.”
“There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people.”
