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“British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.”

Should Problem Bears Cost British Taxpayers Eurozone

“Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.”

People Has Beens Able Speak Becoming Burden Settling Britain Taxpayers Migrants Speak English

Author:Theresa May

“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.”

Way Mean Two Found Practice Source Politician Abandoned Taxation Taxpayers Two Ways

Author:H. L. Mencken

“400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined.”

Way Littles Individual Millions Four Hundred Dollars Property Wealthy Assets Cash Taxpayers Bailouts Mubarak

Author:Michael Moore

“There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.”

People America Depends Fellows Checks Taxpayers Mailboxes

Author:Gary Bauer

“Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.”

Should Children Common Focus Teacher Benefits Resources Dollars Common Sense Classroom Taxpayers

Author:Bob Beauprez

“The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“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.”

People Way Government Benefits Spending Guarantees Yield Federal Government Taxpayers

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

“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.”

Persons Interest Cutting Taxes Gun Program Welfare Farmers Businessman Free Market Taxpayers Subsidies Vested Interests High Taxes

Author:Grover Norquist

“I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.”

People Government Running Guy Fighting Levels Powerful Groups Building Higher Commitment Spending Nonsense Most Powerful Handful Taxpayers Higher Level Lobbying

Author:Grover Norquist

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.”

Believe Rich Higher Rate Believe In Me Taxpayers

Author:George Osborne

“As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.”

Firsts Realizing Citizens Sweat Toil Taxpayers

Author:Rick Perry

“We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.”

Want Taxes Taxpayers

Author:Rick Perry

“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.”

People Needs Use Government Grows Pay Discipline Taxes Debt Making Money Employed Revenue Taxpayers Makin Money Tax System

Author:Marco Rubio

“Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.”

Mean Jobs Talking Taxes Creating Taxpayers

Author:Marco Rubio

“The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.”

Ifs Hard Treats Dollars Taxpayers

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“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.”

Debt Taxpayers Stimulus Borrowed

Author:Paul Ryan

“Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.”

Cost Dollars Investing Billions Marijuana Providing Enforcement Revenue Taxpayers Incarceration

Author:George Soros

“Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.”

Willing Mouths Taxpayers Donate

Author:Thomas Sowell

“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.”

“Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.”

Matter Happens Cities Company Months Workers Disaster Destroyed Remarkable Regions Construction Taxpayers Devastated Insurance Companies Reinventing Homeowners Construction Workers

Author:James Surowiecki

“I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.”

Bigs Government Unions Empowering Boss Handful Taxpayers Big Government

Author:Scott Walker

“My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.”

Way Has Beens Problem Leader Unions Boss Taxpayers Public Sector

Author:Scott Walker

“I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.”

Government Money Cutting Ran Slogans Taxpayers

Author:William Weld

“I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.”

Should Firsts Mean Government Values Waste Harm Maxims Taxpayers

Author:Tony Abbott

“The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.”

Party Support Democratic Criminals Terrorist Islamic Democratic Party Taxpayers No Sympathy

Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“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.”

War Government Race Advantage Paid Iraq Profit Corporations Expenses Boots Protected Entering Competitors Taxpayers Reconstruction Racket

Author:Naomi Klein

“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.”

“In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.”

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Author:Herman Cain

“The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.”

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Author:Herman Cain

“There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.”

Way Business Behinds Britain Favour Small Business Another Way Taxpayers Lending Sorting Sorting Out

Author:David Cameron

“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.”

Doe I Can Government Program Taxpayers Wasted 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?

“Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.”

“What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.”

Ifs President Economic Dollars Yesterday Recovery Prime Taxpayers Pumps Economic Recovery

Author:Eric Cantor

“The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.”

“[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.”

People Years Country States Lines United Pay United States Cost Bills Immigration Immigrants Illegal Lots Of Money Other Countries Unfair Taxpayers Illegal Immigration

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

“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.”

“The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?' They should not, nor should they be forced to be the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and School District of the world. This is evidenced in every poll I have seen indicating that every ethnic group is opposed to illegal immigration and supports enforcement of the law.”

“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.”

Helping Cutting Citizens Program Aids Immigration Upset Taxpayers

Author:J. James Exon

“See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.”

Knows Hands Government Jobs Politics Left Liberty Creating Libertarian Pie Taxpayers Intriguing Creating Jobs

Author:Dave Barry

“American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal immigrants receive probationary status, they will immediately have access to federal benefits like Social Security and Obamacare coverage. If we thought we had a problem with government spending before, just wait.”

“They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.”

Years Said Impossible Health Benefits Thirds Dollars Unions Billions Saved Reform Health Care They Said Taxpayers Rail Bankruptcy Pension Bipartisan Public Sector Health Benefits

Author:Chris Christie

“We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.”

People America Faith Issues Agree Abortion Reasonable Divides Taxpayers

Author:George W. Bush

“...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers”

Basketball Taxpayers

Author:Jason Kidd

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