“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” SocialCompanyEnvironmentWasteProgramDollarsSpendingHarmWelfareWealthyTaxpayersReductionMockery Author:Ralph Nader
“[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.” MayChildrenStatesUseHomeUsedMotherPurposeGroupsRepublicanOffersProgramAbortionAppropriateAgendasFundPregnancyAdoptionRenewalTaxpayersReducingCounselingWedlock Author:Newt Gingrich
“Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.” HelpingUseMovingResourcesProgramSafetyCapabilityEfficientTaxpayersHarnessWorkforceSafety Net Author:Todd Young
“I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.” FirstsI CanGovernmentTroubleFirst TimeProgramSmokeTaxpayersMissilesTrouble Making Author:Bob Hope
“To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?” PeopleGovernmentForceProgramFavorsFinanceGreedyCompulsionTaxpayersEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:John Stossel
“Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.” WarHomeJobsPoorClassPlansMiddleProgramDollarsIraqBillionsFinanceWelfareMiddle ClassExpensesAsiaTaxpayersManufacturing Author:Ron Paul
“The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.” WantYearsGovernmentUsedNextCitiesThousandResearchBuiltProgramUsed To BeManagersPropagandaGood ManHallsMuseumsTaxpayersExhibitionsGood Manager Author:Ai Weiwei
“Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.” PersonsInterestCuttingTaxesGunProgramWelfareFarmersBusinessmanFree MarketTaxpayersSubsidiesVested InterestsHigh Taxes Author:Grover Norquist
“President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.” KnowsNeedsFactsBigsJobsGamesPresidentSpaceKnow HowPolicyMajorsProgramManageEnterprisePresident ObamaPortionsTaxpayersDistortionPlaying GamesSpace ProgramOutsourcingOutsourced Author:John Sununu
“While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.” DoeI CanGovernmentProgramTaxpayersWasted Time Book:Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said? Source: Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
“Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.” HelpingCuttingCitizensProgramAidsImmigrationUpsetTaxpayers Author:J. James Exon
“Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.” GivingBigsForgetLibertyMillionsAdvantageProgramEconomicsVoteElectionDemocratLibertarianHolesPresidentialVotersLibertarianismInitialsForget ItTaxpayersPresidential ElectionAces Author:Joseph Sobran
“Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.” ShouldNationsUnitedInvolvedProgramDollarsCorruptionOilAdministrationFraudInvestigationUnited NationsTaxpayersHype Author:John Ensign