Taxpayers Quotes

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Practice, Two

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

  Stephen Harper

  Unity, Cost, Bilingualism

  Debates (Hansard) No.155 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. May 16, 2007.

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Work, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Mouths, Donate, Willing

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

  Ken Buck

  Government, Hands, Pay

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.

  Dan Smoot

  Strong, Ideas, Government

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• We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

  Rick Perry

  Want, Taxes

  "Rick Perry Supports Work Visas For Undocumented Immigrants In US". www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2011.

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

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Dollars, Treats, Hard

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Apr 15, 2013

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• I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Organization, People

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

  Geoff Davis

  Want, Taxes

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• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

  John Spratt

  Risk, Troops, Dollars

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• I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Money, Islands, Nurse

  "Last Night, Elizabeth Warren Became a Politician" By Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2012.

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

  Chuck Grassley

  Hurt, Complacency, Beneficiaries

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

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Technology, Government

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• The taxpayers deserve accountability.

  Byron Dorgan

  Accountability, Deserve

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• As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

  Dave Barry

  United States, Budweiser, Taxation

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.72, Crown Archetype

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• I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Government, Long, Use

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• 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.

  David Cameron

  Business, Way, Favour

  "Conservative party conference - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Government, Hands

  "American Unmoved by Deficit - Except in Altoona". The Free Lance-Star Column, news.google.com. February 29, 1992.

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• 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.

  Christopher Dodd

  Rights, Practice, Decision

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

  Melissa Bean

  Giving Up, Rights, Privacy

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• We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, Government, Needs

  "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.

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

  Bob Beauprez

  Teacher, Children, Common Sense

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