“Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.” PovertyPaidIncomeLiftsFixedSeniorTaxpayersMedicareFixed Income Author:John F. Kerry
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.” IfsShouldStatesGovernmentTurnsPayHonestTaxesMembersStandardsPaidWorkersIncomeVotingBureaucracyTaxpayersAccountingUnorthodoxGovernment Workers Author:Ilana Mercer
“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” CompanyLaborDoctorsPaidCustomersRevenueTaxpayersAustralianOutrageousSpin Doctors Author:Nick Minchin
“Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations.” CountryPayCasesPaidIraqDestroyedCorporationsTaxpayersRebuilding Author:Noam Chomsky
“The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.” WarForceGreaterToo MuchMilitaryAuthorityConcernClaimsPaidInvestmentBritishPostsEmpiresOver ItParliamentMachineryTaxpayersBritish HistoryAdministrativeMilitary ForcePost WarColonists Author:Linda Colley
“People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.” PeopleShouldGovernmentPaidServantTaxpayersPublic Servants Author:Mitt Romney
“It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.” ThinkingKnowsWantMeanLongImportantStatesGovernmentAbleActionRememberPurposeTaxesPaidThreatAffairViolentResistanceFundHopelessOfferingTaxationTaxpayersDisobedienceInterference Book:Human Action Source: Human Action
“Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.” Has BeensPaidConsumersMaintainingTaxpayersMandatesSubsidies Author:Charles Koch
“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.” IfsPersonsCostMoonPaidTaxpayersArmstrong Author:Danny Boyle
“Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.” TurnsPartyCasesEffectsSourcePaidUnionsDemocraticDemocratDuesEmployeeFundMechanismReportersDemocratic PartyTaxpayersPennies Author:Michael Barone
“Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.” Has BeensGovernmentPoliticalCultureForceEconomyGrowingPaidFoundationConsumersDestructivePartnershipMaintainingTaxpayersPolitical SystemsMandatesSubsidiesUndermining Author:Charles Koch
“Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!” IfsTryingYearsHardBigsTurnsNextWinningSinGreaterPaidSinnerSalaryTaxpayersNext YearMicrosoft Author:Charlie Munger
“You don't do that while you're being paid by taxpayers to do a very difficult and full-time job, and you also do not bring Clinton Foundation interests into the domain of the secretary of state, and you do not give preferred access to your own personal clients.” GivingStatesJobsDifficultInterestPaidFoundationClintonAccessClientsSecretaryDomainTaxpayersFull Time Jobs Author:Jill Stein
“In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.” IfsLongHappensJobsTermPrinciplesRiskPaidBillsAssumingInvestmentProfitDecadesLong TermPocketsGatesZeroCapitalistTaxpayersPublic Sector Author:Noam Chomsky
“protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.” WarGovernmentRaceAdvantagePaidIraqProfitCorporationsExpensesBootsProtectedEnteringCompetitorsTaxpayersReconstructionRacket Author:Naomi Klein
“Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.” IfsMindLongProblemHappensUsedParentStudentsCollegeConcernAccountsPaidBillsUniversityUsed To BeChiefsTaxpayersBank AccountsColleges And Universities Author:George Leef