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The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

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

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.