Taxpayers Quotes - Page 13

• The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

  Ai Weiwei

  Museums, Government, Years

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  Melissa Bean

  Security Systems, Data, Information

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• 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.

  Gaetano Salvemini

  Loss, Pay, Facts

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• 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.

  Vince Cable

  Anger, Apology, Crow

  Liberal Democrat conference: Vince Cable speech, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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• 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.

  Rick Larsen

  People, Track, Legacy

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

  Denis Healey

  People, Aviation, Used

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• 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.

  Israel Zangwill

  Love, Life, Passion

  Israel Zangwill (1893). “Without Prejudice”, p.311, Library of Alexandria

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• 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?

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, People, Want

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• 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.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Years, Oil

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• 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.

  Jim DeMint

  Medicine, Goal, Use

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• 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.

  Peter Hain

  Party, Organization, People

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• 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.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• I want to send a clear message to every board room, every executive suite across America, if you scam your customers, exploit your many employees, pollute our environment, or rip off taxpayers, we will find ways to hold you accountable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rip, America, Boards

  Source: time.com

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• 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.

  Chris Chocola

  Opportunity, Government, Pet

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• We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to be President of the United States.

  Doug Ford, Jr.

  Jobs, President, United States

  Source: www.citynews.ca

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• Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

  Bernie Sanders

  Oil, Climate, Needs

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• The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Mistress, Lines, Cabinets

  "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

  Bill Nye

  Needs, Voters

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy asks parents not to raise creationist kids" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

  Austin Ligon

  Average, Support, Vision

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• We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Responsibility, Risk

  "Germany's Angela Merkel Leans On Irish to Fix Economy". abcnews.go.com. November 12, 2010.

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• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Differences, Asking, Fundamentals

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Voting, Unorthodox

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

  Nick Minchin

  Doctors, Revenue, Company

  "Bligh Chief to NBN Co to be Paid $450k". www.smh.com.au. November 18, 2009.

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• American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

  Al Gore

  War, Winning, Sight

  "How to Debate George Bush" by Al Gore, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Money

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