Taxpayers Quotes - Page 11

• As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

  Jim Ramstad

  Taxes, Wells, Compliance

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

  John Thune

  States, Situation, Wells

  "Sen. John Thune on Legislation to Block Bailout of State Pension Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2011.

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• It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Responsibility, Accountability, Film

  "New tax break will help British film-makers take on Hollywood" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.

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• Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Law, Promise

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• I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

  Scott McCallum

  Government, Perspective, People

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• American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Dollars, Bottles

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• The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Two, Australia

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• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  Gary Bauer

  Greatness, America, Needs

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• However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Numbers

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• People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

  Barack Obama

  Airplane, People, Secret

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.

  Robert H. Frank

  Mean, Dollars, Income

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

  Buzz Aldrin

  "Why We Need Better Rockets" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

  Nadya Suleman

  Resources, Food Stamps, Temporary

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.898, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Thinking, Giving

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• As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Government, Hands, Leader

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• Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

  Charles Koch

  Subsidies, Maintaining, Consumers

  "Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America". "The Wall Street Journal", September 9, 2012.

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• Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

  Todd Young

  Moving, Safety, Use

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• College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Jobs, College, Feet

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?

  Kent Hovind

  School, Scary, Textbooks

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• At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Men, Doctors

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