Taxpayers Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.

  David B. Axelrod

  Important, Principles, Senators

  "Bill Clinton, campaign strategists, Colo. Senate debate". "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com.

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• Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Ideas, Car

  Vice presidential debate questions, www.politico.com. October 11, 2012.

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• When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Night, People

  Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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• In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

  Cal Thomas

  Dollars, Poor, Restructuring

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• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  Zell Miller

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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• For years President Obama has been saying that no one would lose their healthcare plan. Now the White House has admitted that in fact many people will lose their plans. But there is a way to keep the great coverage you have. Just become a member of Congress. Then the taxpayers pay for the whole thing.

  Jay Leno

  Years, White, People

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• There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

  David Cameron

  Country, Thinking, Compassion

  "David Cameron makes leaner state a permanent goal" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

  Bernie Sanders

  Oil, Climate, Needs

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• Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

  John C. Goodman

  Baby, Retirement, Bills

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