Taxpayers Quotes - Page 12

• Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ebay, Order, Pouring

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• To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

  David Malpass

  Winning, Government, Covered Up

  "And the Crisis Winner Is? Government". "The Wall Street Journal", December 16, 2011.

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• Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.

  Neal Boortz

  Retirement, Years, Government

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• There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Loss, Government

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• It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

  Anthony Weiner

  Government, Common Sense, Enough

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• Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Money, Politician

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• We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

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• American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

  Al Gore

  War, Winning, Sight

  "How to Debate George Bush" by Al Gore, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.

  Mark Neumann

  Government, Office, Limos

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• The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Feminism

  "The Myth of Male Power". The Myth of Male Power, 1993.

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• The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Attitude, Children

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• The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Mistress, Lines, Cabinets

  "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

  Chuck Grassley

  Law, Justice, Enforcement

  "Congress Targets Mortgage Fraud: Justice for Victims, Jail for the Guilty". Tri-State Defender, February 12, 2009.

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• Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

  John F. Kerry

  Senior, Poverty, Income

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". John F. Kerry at debate with George W. Bush Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Credit, Debt

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• President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

  Austin Ligon

  Average, Support, Vision

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• We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Responsibility, Risk

  "Germany's Angela Merkel Leans On Irish to Fix Economy". abcnews.go.com. November 12, 2010.

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• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Differences, Asking, Fundamentals

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Voting, Unorthodox

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

  Nick Minchin

  Doctors, Revenue, Company

  "Bligh Chief to NBN Co to be Paid $450k". www.smh.com.au. November 18, 2009.

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• The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stress, Littles, Bankers

  "Not so much bail-out as rip-off". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

  Ron Paul

  Vote, Remember, Invisible

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• Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Iraq, Pay

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• The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.

  Linda Colley

  Military, War, Empires

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• People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, People, Should

  Mitt Romney at GOP primary debate at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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