Taxpayers Quotes · Page 15

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests…

— Franklin Pierce

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the…

— Cal Thomas

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

— C. S. Lewis

For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will…

— Stephen Harper

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund…

— Jim Cooper

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the…

— Tom L. Johnson

Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged…

— J. James Exon

Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven…

— Kent Hovind

Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

— Ron Paul

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

— Will Rogers

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

— John Warren Kindt

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on…

— John F. Kerry

[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the…

— Newt Gingrich

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

— Ric Keller

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn…

— William Proxmire

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,…

— Murray Rothbard

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean…

— John Salazar

Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene…

— Ann Coulter

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

— Tony Abbott

By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words,…

— Ilana Mercer

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.…

— Piers Corbyn

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with…

— Jerry Brown

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

— Geoff Davis

To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers…

— Ann Coulter