“When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.” Has BeensCountryStatesEnoughBigsWinningLosesGriefPaySupportPoliticianTaxesBenefitsConcernedVoteCongressWelfareVotingDeficitTaxpayersWelfare StateWin Win Author:Thomas Sowell
“Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development” SocialEconomicDevelopmentCostBenefitsGamblingTaxpayersEconomic Development Author:John Warren Kindt
“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” ReasonSocialJusticeEconomicCostBenefitsEvidenceSocial JusticeAddictionGamblingTaxpayersBans Author:John Warren Kindt
“We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in as taxpayers into free higher education for returning GIs, we got back $7 for every dollar invested. An enormous return on our money in public benefits and improved revenue.” KnowsWorldWarFoundReturnHigherBenefitsBillsDollarsCongressEnormousWar Of The WorldsRevenueTaxpayersSecond World WarHigher EducationGis Author:Jill Stein
“Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.” ShouldChildrenCommonFocusTeacherBenefitsResourcesDollarsCommon SenseClassroomTaxpayers Author:Bob Beauprez
“We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.” PeopleWayGovernmentBenefitsSpendingGuaranteesYieldFederal GovernmentTaxpayers Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973
“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” CountryStatesUseMightJobsNumbersRecordsCitizensBenefitsMovedBurdenCriminalsImmigrationOur CountrySecureAliensAdministrationWelfareBordersImmigrantsIllegalAffectedEnteringTaxpayersDisturbedPublic ServiceHiringLarge NumbersIllegal Aliens Author:William J. Clinton