Top 100 Quotes About Taxpayers
#1. 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
#2. The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.
Timothy Griffin
#3. Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.
Zarina Bibi
#4. Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.
Rick Scott
#5. The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.
John Kline
#6. Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.
Thomas Sowell
#7. You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
Michele Bachmann
#8. Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
Marco Rubio
#9. For taxpayers, however, it's [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That's why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.
Stephen Harper
#10. The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.
Lawrence O'Donnell
#11. 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
#12. I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
Rocky Anderson
#13. Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
Anita Roddick
#15. More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.
Tim Murphy
#16. Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. 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
#19. Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
Charles Koch
#20. Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.
Robert Reich
#21. Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
Jacob Lew
#22. Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
Evan Esar
#23. The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.
Marco Rubio
#24. If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.
Mark Begich
#25. 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
#26. The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.
Jim Costa
#27. 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
#28. Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
Bill Halter
#29. In other words, the uninsured private bankers had to be bailed out illegally and utterly unethically. But the taxpayers who were forced to carry that can should not even be given better terms for repaying the odious, private debt they were forced to acquire in order to bail the bankers out.
Yanis Varoufakis
#30. Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their 'too big to fail' status.
Sherrod Brown
#31. 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
#32. Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean
#33. Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
Will Rogers
#34. No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
Thomas Sowell
#35. An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
Denis Healey
#36. It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.
Donald Rumsfeld
#37. We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
Ronald Reagan
#38. When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.
Demetri Martin
#39. Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
Lamar S. Smith
#40. 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
#41. Rocco watched Strike limp into the human slipstream of Eighth Avenue, watched him negotiate his way through lowlifes and taxpayers until he disappeared inside the terminal doors without a backward glance.
Richard Price
#42. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
Ron Paul
#43. Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.
Ron Paul
#44. We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.
Debbie Stabenow
#45. We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.
George W. Bush
#46. The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.
Rob Ford
#47. As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
Karin Slaughter
#48. 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
#49. We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.
Gary Johnson
#50. Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.
Thomas Friedman
#51. If raising money is critical to getting reelected, so is spending taxpayers' money to reward those who help get us reelected.
Congressman X
#52. It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income'
well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair
giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.
Joe Biden
#53. For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.
Henry Hazlitt
#54. I have two measures every time I look at a bill. Is this in the best interests of the hardworking taxpayers in Northeast Ohio and the 14th District, and will this stimulate or encourage the economy to work?
David Joyce
#55. Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
Jerry Brown
#56. [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
Herbert Hoover
#57. President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.
Austin Ligon
#58. People were tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers; and they were angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who thought all of mankind's problems could be solved by throwing the taxpayers' dollars at them.
Ronald Reagan
#59. Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.
Loretta Lynch
#60. Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.
Stephan A. Hoeller
#61. Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.
Ronald Reagan
#62. Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits.
Maria Cantwell
#63. As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky
#64. I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.
Steve King
#65. The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.
James Bovard
#66. From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares ... yes ... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
Laura Miller
#67. [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
#68. Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
Matt Blunt
#69. And that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers
Jason Kidd
#70. Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.
John C. Goodman
#71. Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
John M. McHugh
#72. I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve. It's taxpayers money that is being used there
Harry Reid
#73. The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
Milton Friedman
#74. Under the California desert and subsidized by the taxpayers' money, someone had finally invented a chain letter that really worked. A very lethal chain letter.
Stephen King
#75. To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.
Devin Nunes
#76. The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking taxpayers all across this country.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#77. This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
Karen Mills
#78. Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?
Scott Walker
#79. Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?
John Sweeney
#80. The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
Carly Fiorina
#81. To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job.
Ann Coulter
#82. Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
Mike Rogers
#84. The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
Will Rogers
#85. Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.
Walter E. Williams
#86. If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
Mario Draghi
#87. To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.
David Malpass
#88. Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
Timothy Noah
#89. Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.
Jason Chaffetz
#90. Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.
Jason Chaffetz
#91. The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community.
Marco Rubio
#92. Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.
George Osborne
#93. This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.
Murray Rothbard
#94. The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
Grover Norquist
#95. While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Tony Campolo
#96. 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.
David Cameron
#97. 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
#98. Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
Bobby Scott
#99. 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
#100. The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
Rosa DeLauro
