Taxpayers Quotes - Page 15

• Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Iraq, Pay

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• While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Military, Mean, Challenges

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• [Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Discovery, Liberty

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• Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

  Evan Esar

  Eye, Noses, Ears

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• There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

  David Cameron

  Country, Thinking, Compassion

  "David Cameron makes leaner state a permanent goal" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

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• The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

  Sandy Adams

  Government, Cells, Support

  "Sandy Adams, candidate for U.S. House district 24". Interview, dampfang.com. August 18, 2010.

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• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  Zell Miller

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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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.

  Andrew Mellon

  Taxation, Pressure, Taxes

  Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  George Sutherland

  Mean, Law, Would Be

  Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465, (469), 1935.

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• 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.

  Pete Hegseth

  America, Accountability, Dollars

  "Pentagon Waste Undermines Readiness, Proves Need for Audit" by Pete Hegseth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

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• 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.

  Rob McKenna

  Jobs, Unions, Tables

  "GOP candidate: 'I'm not Scott Walker'" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. April 17, 2012.

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

  Jim Ramstad

  Aquariums, Essentials, Information

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• 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.

  John Salazar

  Water, Community, Cost

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• If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Harry Truman, Body

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• Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

  Michelle Malkin

  Ponds, Scum, Biofuels

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• People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty pledge, who won't put their beliefs in writing, who won't endorse the Freedom Agenda, we should be asking them some very very hard questions. Very hard questions. Because you know what, they get away with it. We hear what goes on in closed doors in Olympia. We hear them say the opposite of what they say publicly.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Writing, Rights

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• After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.

  William Kunstler

  Encouragement, Kings, Believe

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• Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Believe, School

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.253, Columbia University Press

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• But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

  Maria Cantwell

  Hiking, Energy, West

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• No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.

  G. Edward Griffin

  America, Judging, Irs

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• The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

  Michael Tanner

  Government, Opposites, Welfare Programs

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• Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ideas, Perfect, News

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• Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Politics, Democrat, Taxes

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• More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Facts, Taxation

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Temptation, Looks, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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