Taxpayers Quotes

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.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.

The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.

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.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

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

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

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

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money.

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

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

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.