Taxpayers Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• [Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Discovery, Liberty

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• [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Ruins, Prosperity

  Herbert Hoover, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1934). “The state papers and other public writings of Herbert Hoover”

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Money

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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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• To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Government, Car

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• As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Government, Names

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• Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They self-righteously lecture us about public service, the children, a 'living wage' all in the service of squeezing more money from the taxpayer to fund their breathtakingly selfish job arrangements.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Children, Crazy

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• It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

  David Burge

  Great Day, Debt, Limits

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• The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.

  Rob Ford

  Fighting, People, Speak

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