Quotes

Reagan on Taxes

“It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.”

March 2, 1981

“I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking the feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.”

— Excerpted from Remarks at the Midwinter Congressional City Conference of the National League of Cities