Taxpayers Quotes - Page 8

• I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Ideas, Voice

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• Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Champion, Rubbish, Firsts

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.210, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done more to out, embarrass, and destroy the lives of gay men who prefer to keep their orientation private than Democrats? Who is more intolerant of gays in the Republican Party than gays in the Democratic Party?

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Gay, Men

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• The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was surprisingly enthusiastic about the plan to save their (butts) with other peoples' money. It was either that, or Sarah Palin's idea to sell it all on eBay.

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Government, Ebay

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• The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Years, Numbers, Brain

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

  Gladys Taber

  Father, Taxes

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• While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Justice, Addiction

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• The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Cutting, Years, Income

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, Children, Pain

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected around the world anymore. They know that this country is pushing the middle class, the hardworking taxpayers, backwards, and they saw a president who doesn't understand their pain, and doesn't have any plan for getting away from it.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Pain, Home

  Chris Christie at the 6th GOP debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. January 14, 2016.

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• In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.

  Wernher von Braun

  Dirty, Moon, Hands

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• British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

  George Osborne

  Cost, Bears, Problem

  Source: www.economist.com

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• What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for through Medicaid, Medicare, through uncompensated care, because that was in the context of the push for health care reform and that we needed some way to try to defray those costs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trying, Care, Way

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?

  Prince Andrew

  Years, Earning, Injustice

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• We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

  John Barrasso

  Jobs, Hard Work, People

  "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.

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• Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

  Marsha Blackburn

  People, Effort, Amnesty

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• Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.

  Spencer Bachus

  Needs, Bills, Emergencies

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• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  Office, President, Defense

  "Senator Plans To Probe Clinton's Use Of White House Lawyers". www.cnn.com. April 4, 1998.

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• While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

  Jim Cooper

  Income, Irs, Currents

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• Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Years, America

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• The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.

  John Conyers

  Home, Iraq, Giving

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• Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

  Larry Craig

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Government, Cost

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• For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Justice, Dollars

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• It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Loses

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