Taxpayers Quotes - Page 16

• Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

  Winston Churchill

  Firsts, Columbus, Socialist

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• The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.

  Andrew Wilkow

  Permanent

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• The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

  Michael Tanner

  Government, Opposites, Welfare Programs

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• Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ideas, Perfect, News

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• If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Harry Truman, Body

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• Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Politics, Democrat, Taxes

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• Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

  Michelle Malkin

  Ponds, Scum, Biofuels

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• In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

  Herman Cain

  Birthday, Senior, Retirement

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• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Gun, Subsidies

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• The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

  Marco Rubio

  Hard Work, Responsibility, People

  "Republicans' Crucial Conference; More Cruise Ship Nightmares; ADHD Drugs Over-Prescribed". "CNN Newsroom" with Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

  Scott Walker

  Government, Empowering, Boss

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• The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

  Will Rogers

  Witty, Political, Might

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• This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

  Murray Rothbard

  Philosophy, Thinking, Political

  "Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels". Lecture by Murray Rothbard, 1986.

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• The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

  Al Gore

  Government, Ice, Sea

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• Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.

  Ronald Reagan

  Loyalty, Lying, Believe

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• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

  Robert Byrd

  Iraq, President, Want

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• If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Democracy, Receiving, Salary

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

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• If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

  Mario Draghi

  Pay The Price, Euro Crisis, Benefits

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Class, Ideas

  "FULL TEXT: Marco Rubio's Response To Obama's State Of The Union" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. February 12, 2013.

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• According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.

  Ann Coulter

  Years, California, Care

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine.  But don't make your kids do it.  Because we need them.  We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.  We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.

  Bill Nye

  Kids, Needs, World

  "Bill Nye Isn't Dead, He's Gone Viral" by Nicholas Clairmont, bigthink.com.

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• Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

  Ron Paul

  Parenthood, Newts, Funding

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