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“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.”

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Author:Devin Nunes

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

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

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

Ifs Resources Temporary Stamps Taxpayers Food Stamps

Author:Nadya Suleman

“What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Used Pay Issues Ought Abortion Taxpayers

Author:Mitch McConnell

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

Needs Voters Taxpayers

Author:Bill Nye

“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.”

Source: Human Action

“The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.”

Thinking Needs Giving Home Millions Our Society Taxpayers Visa Going Home

Author:Rand Paul

“As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.”

Hands Government Political Leader Demand Critical Taxpayers Political Leaders Power To Change

Author:Tadashi Yanai

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

Has Beens Paid Consumers Maintaining Taxpayers Mandates Subsidies

Author:Charles Koch

“Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.”

Helping Use Moving Resources Program Safety Capability Efficient Taxpayers Harness Workforce Safety Net

Author:Todd Young

“College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.”

Has Beens Ends Helping Jobs Growth Feet Economic Students College Degrees Innovation Bills Graduates Taxpayers Dropping Economic Growth Subsidies Dropping Out

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.”

Humans Government Liberty Discovery Contribution Pockets Taxpayers Human Wisdom

Author:H. L. Mencken

“[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.”

“Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?”

Ifs Way Happens School Universe Evolution Members Vote Scary Fund Proven Taxpayers Jury Textbooks

Author:Kent Hovind

“At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.”

“[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.”

Country Prosperity Ruins Taxpayers

Book:The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover

Source: The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover

“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.”

“As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”

Millions Cost Unity Fairness Taxpayers Bilingualism

Author:Stephen Harper

“Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.”

Running Energy Doors Huge Dollars Sake Contemporary Opening Taxpayers Phony Slamming Doors

Author:Mark Steyn

“It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.”

Ifs Giving Wells Has Beens Care Simple Class Break Middle Fairs Medical Income Health Care Middle Class Wealthy Just Being Entitled Propositions Adequate Taxpayers

Author:Joe Biden

“Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.”

“The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.”

Ifs Has Beens Enough Next Grief Bills Ruins Schemes Next Time Banking Taxpayers Deposits Pestilence

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.”

Next Waiting Taxpayers Junkie Subsidies Scots Bagpipes

Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

“Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.”

Jobs Lasts Internet Computer Decades Billions Free Speech Taxpayers Computer Systems

Author:William Cohen

“The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.”

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Author:Tony Abbott

“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.”

“However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.”

Needs Government Strong Miracle Taxpayers Need Money Strong Government

Author:George Soros

“The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.”

Years Has Beens Numbers Brain Serious Huge Cost Percent Lifetime Including Billions Administration Injury Disability Healthcare Wounded Veteran Taxpayers Huge Numbers Head Injuries

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks and the equity holders in those banks. We could have talked about forcing those investors to take some serious hits on their risky dealings. The idea that taxpayer dollars go in first rather than last - after the equity has been used up - is shocking.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?"”

“The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.”

Bigs Might Able Used Universe Next Theory Boundaries Japan Strings Physicist Taxpayers Linear String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

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

Funny Comedy Taxpayers

Author:Demetri Martin

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

Needs Burden Taxpayers

Author:George Deukmejian

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

Thinking Needs Hard Taxpayers

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.”

Thinking Government Pay Class Middle Protect Endless Reform Middle Class Expansion Taxpayers

Author:Scott Walker

“We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.”

Ifs Giving Might Reserves Entity Taxpayers Misconception Analogies Federal Reserve

Author:Gary Johnson

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

Has Beens Waste Minimum Taxpayers

Author:Bobby Scott

“Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.”

People Giving Hands Voice Debate Expensive Collectives Taxpayers Entitlement Bargaining Collective Bargaining

Author:Scott Walker

“I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.”

Way Government Used Term Clear Conditions Institutions Fund Funding Taxpayers Australian Deposits Wholesale

Author:Julie Bishop

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

Needs Bigs Government Proven Taxpayers Mandates Big Government

Author:Mike Rogers

“Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.”

Has Beens Sound Talking Violence Failing Crime Policy Waste Tough Increase Following Technique Minorities Proven Taxpayers Prevention Follow Through

Author:Bobby Scott

“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.”

Ifs Persons Cost Moon Paid Taxpayers Armstrong

Author:Danny Boyle

“Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.”

Needs Helping Care America Greatness Resources Willingness Taxpayers Need Help

Author:Gary Bauer

“I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.”

Years Ideas Voice Return Taxes Percent No Idea Statistics Accurate Taxpayers Irs Tax Returns Voices In My Head

Author:Dave Barry

“Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.”

Ifs Shows Given Tvs Taxes Ordinary Congress Code Islands Survivor Bob Locked Tv Shows Sections Proposal Taxpayers Vaults

Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

Firsts I Can Government Trouble First Time Program Smoke Taxpayers Missiles Trouble Making

Author:Bob Hope

“Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.”

Order Birth Billions Remembered Mail Taxpayers Detroit Pouring Catalogues Ebay Bailouts

Author:Thomas Friedman

“To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.”

Government Winning Pay Plans Generations Politician Cost Europe Election Leaving Debt Spending Endless Covered Taxpayers Government Spending Covered Up

Author:David Malpass

“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.”

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Author:Neal Boortz

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