Elected Quote by Barbara Ann Radnofsky

We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

— Manuel Moroun

If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“we’re problems to be solved, not citizens. That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact…

— Cory Doctorow

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to…

— Holly Sklar

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

— Walker Stapleton

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

— Jim Cooper

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

— Lewis Black

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

— Margaret Hoover

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

State government owes it to every taxpayer to be as fiscally responsible as possible.

— Jim Justice