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The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars. -- Tina Thompson
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. -- David Suzuki
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars. -- Russ Carnahan
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. -- Kenneth Blackwell
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq. -- Sherrod Brown
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars. -- George Miller
And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to. -- Melissa Bean
Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export. -- Rick Perry
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired. -- Bill Keller
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. -- Grover Norquist
Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs. -- Raul Grijalva
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect. -- Bill Nye
Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods. -- Joel Fuhrman
We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food. -- Tom Colicchio
You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process. -- Lupe Fiasco
We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars. -- Donella Meadows
This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving? -- Rob Portman
In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars. -- Paul Gigot
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? -- Peg Bracken
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. -- Ronald Reagan
Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs -- Robert Greenwald
The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea. -- Florynce Kennedy
Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home. -- Stephen Harper
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't! -- Jimmy Carter
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want." -- Ronald Reagan
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that -- John Warren Kindt
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims. -- Gil Garcetti
In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this -- Mark Earley
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. -- Kenneth Blackwell
[Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not. -- Sarah Palin
Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. -- Jesse Helms

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