1.
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
2.
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
Jim Ramstad
3.
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.
Andrew Mellon
4.
When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.
Demetri Martin
6.
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
7.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Thomas Sowell
8.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
Donald Rumsfeld
10.
What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
Geoff Davis
11.
I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.
Henry Paulson
12.
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.
Edward Kennedy
14.
Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
Chuck Grassley
15.
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
Charles Koch
16.
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
Bill Nye
17.
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
18.
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.
Dana Rohrabacher
19.
I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.
Anthony Scaramucci
20.
Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.
Ron Paul
21.
Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
Gladys Taber
22.
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.
Paul Ryan
23.
Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
Mike Rogers
24.
I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.
Nadya Suleman
26.
Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.
Glenn Reynolds
27.
It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.
Donald Rumsfeld
28.
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.
Rocky Anderson
30.
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
31.
I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.
Steve King
32.
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.
John Thune
33.
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
Bobby Scott
35.
The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money.
Doug Bandow
36.
...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers
Jason Kidd
37.
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.
Danny Boyle
39.
Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.
Buzz Aldrin
40.
Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.
George Osborne
41.
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
Ronald Reagan
42.
Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.
Hillary Clinton
43.
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.
Devin Nunes
45.
The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.
David B. Axelrod