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“The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.”

Law Jokes Excess Riding Disgrace Taxpayers Rule Of Law Irs

Author:Paul Laxalt

“We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.”

Should Humans Use Millions Research Destruction Dollars Congress Fund Taxpayers Pro Life Embryos

Author:Mike Pence

“There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.”

Firsts Ends Government Loss Business Danger Privacy Monopoly Taxpayers

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The taxpayers deserve accountability.”

Deserve Accountability Taxpayers

Author:Byron Dorgan

“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.””

Wells Kind Made War Helping Government Black Poverty Evidence Program Slavery Moved Spending Discrimination All Kinds Welfare Assumption Survived Federal Government Taxpayers Black Family

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.”

Shows Pay Compassion Disaster Throwing Peter Taxpayers Robbing

Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?”

Want Hard Entertainment Billions Video Taxpayers

Author:Tony Abbott

“For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.”

Men Should Government Law Pay Men And Women Gender Ridiculous Federal Government Equity Rip Taxpayers Scrap Civil Service

Author:Stephen Harper

“After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question....Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”

Country Facts Today Mistake Accepting Millions Policy Cost Unity Mere Canada Fairness Dogma Taxpayers Bilingualism

Author:Stephen Harper

“I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough, when they know those subsidies have actually gone up - I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people.”

People Thinking Knows Enough Home Turns Gone Rich Tvs Ordinary Bunch Not Sure Coming Home Ordinary People Taxpayers Turn-on Subsidies

Author:Stephen Harper

“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”

Ifs School Successful Organization Paid Management Dollars Average Profit Accomplished Executives Public School Salary Taxpayers Charter Public Education Rationale Charter Schools

Book:Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

Source: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

“If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.”

Ifs Want Looks Hard Sound Results Hard Work Solutions Horse Congress Accomplishment Bites Rhetoric Trading Taxpayers Sound Bites

Author:Alcee Hastings

“As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.”

Art Ends Use President Activity Program Fund Taxpayers Degrading Endowment

Author:Gary Bauer

“The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money”

Want Form Social President Security Iraq Social Security Taxpayers Medicare Wallets Receipts

Author:Robert Byrd

“The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.”

Mean Would Be Law Amount Taxes Permit Taxpayers Decrease Doubted

Author:George Sutherland

“If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?”

Ifs Should Kind Support Institutions Alternatives Exceed Taxpayers Threshold

Author:Sheila Bair

“It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.”

Ifs Use Purpose Millions Dollars Access Abortion Fund Parenthood Taxpayers Planned Parenthood

Author:Eric Cantor

“Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.”

People Thinking Way Said Seems Government Team Humility Members Folks Boss Taxpayers

Author:Mark Sanford

“Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.”

Security Information Huge Protect Profit Selling Data Taxpayers Entrepreneurial Security Systems

Author:Melissa Bean

“Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.”

Giving Should Rights Taxes Giving Up Privacy Files Taxpayers

Author:Melissa Bean

“First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.”

Firsts Security Information Essentials Sensitive Privacy Taxpayers Aquariums

Author:Jim Ramstad

“In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social.”

States Facts Individual Social Loss Pay Responsible Profit Enterprise Taxpayers Fascists Blunders Private Enterprise

Author:Gaetano Salvemini

“The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.”

Needs Helping Use Government Opportunity Situation Members Projects Advantage Tragedy Dollars Congress Pet Taxpayers Those In Need

Author:Chris Chocola

“I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you.”

States Jobs Sides Tables Unions Including Governors Behalf Taxpayers Public Sector

Author:Rob McKenna

“Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DoD spends taxpayer dollars.”

America Concerned Dollars Accountability Veteran Taxpayers Transparency Pentagon

Author:Pete Hegseth

“All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.”

Should Water Community Cost Clean Burden Cleaning Taxpayers Clean Water

Author:John Salazar

“The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.”

Shows Taxes Paid Pressure Rate Productive Taxation Taxpayers

Book:Taxation: The People’s Business

Source: Taxation: The People’s Business

“The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.”

“Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.”

Decision Practice Rights Please Lows Deserve Income Target Unfair Taxpayers Irs Low Income

Author:Christopher Dodd

“Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.”

People Should Political Party Support Training Organization Advertising Site Funding Taxpayers Posters Political Education

Author:Peter Hain

“Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate. ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.”

Use Care Goal Steps Clear Economic Increase Crisis Medicine Democrat Burden Debate Significant Health Care Taxpayers Scrutiny Economic Crisis Socialized Medicine

Author:Jim DeMint

“We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.”

“Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?”

People Want Should Wells Helping Government Waste Libertarian Productive Good People Taxpayers Private Sector Looting

Author:Murray Rothbard

“In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.”

Love Life Doe Play Passion Capable Average Opera Dominant Taxpayers

Book:Without Prejudice

Source: Without Prejudice

“An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.”

People Used Accounts Aviation Wealthy Expenses Taxpayers Airline Aircraft

Author:Denis Healey

“What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.”

Want Taxes Taxpayers

Author:Geoff Davis

“I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.”

People Asks Ability Tools Dollars Track Defense Billions Administration Legacy Budgets Taxpayers

Author:Rick Larsen

“Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.”

Hurt Taxpayers Complacency Beneficiaries

Author:Chuck Grassley

“On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.”

Wells Fantasy Economy Achieve Anger British Harm Bob Apology Attacking Taxpayers Outrageous Crow Bonus British Economy

Author:Vince Cable

“A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.”

Men States Home Hands Eye Law House Fine Army Court Heavy Complicated Every Man Features Penalties Spy Machinery Counting Taxpayers Detectives Unfamiliar Menace Inspectors Tribunals

Author:Richard E. Byrd

“Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.”

Humans Self Earth Order Grows Human Beings Citizens Taxpayers Authentic Self Pawns

Author:Stephan A. Hoeller

“Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.”

People Ifs Thinking States Wish Can Do Forget Pay Source Fundamentals Saving Never Forget Taxpayers Savings Borrowing Good Thinking Public Money

Book:The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988

Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988

“If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.”

Ifs Done Democracy Members Benefits Receiving Wages Parliament Salary Taxpayers Treasury Subsidies Deputies Members Of Parliament

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.”

Parenthood Funding Taxpayers Planned Parenthood Newts

Author:Ron Paul

“The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money.”

Administration Taxpayers

Author:Doug Bandow

“Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.”

People Government Technology Stupid Deserve Taxpayers Harness

Author:Matt Blunt

“We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.”

Children Country Turns Education Our Children Dollars Educational Taxpayers Educational System

Author:Alan Keyes

“People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.”

“But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.”

Seems Political Benefits Commitment Gains Ideals Vote Conservative Compromise Taxpayers

Author:Jeff Miller

“Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.”

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