Tax Dollars Quotes

• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Pockets

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

  Arthur Godfrey

  Funny, Money, Humor

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

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• America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Land, America, Taxation

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

  John Fugelsang

  Christian, Country, Dollars

  "Viewpoint", May 29, 2013.

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• Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

  Gil Garcetti

  Dollars, Law Enforcement, Crime

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• We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

  Tom Colicchio

  Home, School, Kids

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• The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

  Tina Thompson

  Jobs, Community, Dollars

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• Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

  Stephen Harper

  Home, Buying, Dollars

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• It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Country, War, People

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• Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

  Ken Blackwell

  Jobs, Government, Friendly

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• Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Dollars, Protection

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.67, Greystone Books Ltd

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• I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Names, Dollars

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• Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

  Sarah Palin

  Kids, Fruit Flies, Paris

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

  Roger Ailes

  Attitude, Wings, Npr

  "NPR Is 'Left Wing Of Nazism' Says Fox News Chairman". The Daily Beast Interview, www.businessinsider.com. November 18, 2010.

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• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Country, Dollars, Disease

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic
  level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Political

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• We have to band together, but the thing in America is that people are terrified of losing their jobs... Maybe California needs to secede. The only thing that'll make any difference is the money... Tax dollars and losing that amount of money. It's one of the most economically powerful states, isn't it? That's where it hurts.

  Cate Blanchett

  Hurt, Jobs, Powerful

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money. But if we can't put some of our investments, or some of our money back into humans, isn't that where it all begins?

  Nia Long

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Assessment, Nsa, Names

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

  Robert Greenwald

  Childhood, Quality, Dollars

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• We've undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe and are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Southern, Borders

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we will save countless tax dollars, and that's so important because the tax - the dollars that we're losing are beyond anything that you can imagine. And the tax dollars that can be used to rebuild struggling American communities - including our inner cities.

  Donald Trump

  Struggle, Cities, Community

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

  Ronald Reagan

  Keys, Political, Dollars

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

  Jay Leno

  Vegas, Government, People

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• Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

  Bill Nye

  Real, Dollars, Inference

  "Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Talks Creationism Critique, Religion, Education". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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