Taxpayers Quotes - Page 11

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

  Mike Rogers

  Government, Needs, Bigs

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• 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.

  Bobby Scott

  Talking, Minorities, Prevention

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• 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.

  Danny Boyle

  Moon, Cost, Armstrong

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Gary Bauer

  Greatness, America, Needs

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• People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

  Barack Obama

  Airplane, People, Secret

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the poor have a moral claim to the money other people earn.

  James Lileks

  Believe, Poor Neighborhoods, People

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• 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.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

  Scott McCallum

  Government, Perspective, People

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• The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

  Dave Barry

  Music, Weed, Art

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  Vince Cable

  Team, Office, London

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

  Jim Ramstad

  Taxes, Wells, Compliance

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• However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Numbers

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

  John Thune

  States, Situation, Wells

  "Sen. John Thune on Legislation to Block Bailout of State Pension Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2011.

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• It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Responsibility, Accountability, Film

  "New tax break will help British film-makers take on Hollywood" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.

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• Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Law, Promise

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• American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Dollars, Bottles

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• The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Two, Australia

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• Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

  John M. McHugh

  Dollars, Environment, Destroying

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• At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Laughing, Office

  "Comic Ruby Wax runs workshops for Home Office staff". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

  Georges Bernanos

  Believe, Optimism, Virtue

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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• The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

  Piers Corbyn

  Military, Data, Weather

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• The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.

  David Boaz

  Art, Real, Responsibility

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• The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

  John Doolittle

  Mean, Desire, United States

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

  Buzz Aldrin

  "Why We Need Better Rockets" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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