Taxpayers Quotes · Page 4

Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

— Timothy Noah

Taxpayers' and 'people on benefits' are not two separate and distinct groups of people.

— Emily Thornberry

Richmond liberals have figured out too many ways to separate taxpayers from their hard-earned money.

— Glenn Youngkin

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

— Margaret Thatcher

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

— John Warren Kindt

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

— Debbie Stabenow

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

— Chuck Grassley

I know I've saved the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

— Rob Ford

400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as…

— Michael Moore

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

— Michelle Malkin

Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public…

— Jim DeMint

See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only…

— Dave Barry

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with…

— Kevin Brady

We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the…

— Angela Merkel

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we…

— Rahm Emanuel

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that…

— Larry Craig

Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any…

— Robert Reich

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97…

— Herman Cain

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just…

— Fran Lebowitz

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension…

— Chris Christie

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library…

— Karin Slaughter

If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income…

— Robert H. Frank

The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be…

— Thomas Sowell

We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices…

— Jim Himes

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

— Kevin Brady

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

— George Osborne

Nobody believes that Justin Trudeau is trying to save taxpayers' money.

— Andrew Scheer

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

— James Cook

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every…

— Gary Bauer

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use…

— Eric Cantor

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste…

— Tony Abbott

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's…

— Harry Reid

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to…

— Gail Collins

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in…

— Scott Walker

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle…

— Scott Walker

If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow…

— Sheila Bair

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of…

— Charles O. Rossotti

We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to…

— Doug Ford, Jr