The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
All you owe the public is a good performance.