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  • Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. -- Laura Miller
  • People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
  • We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. -- Marco Rubio
  • The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. -- Gore Vidal
  • Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. -- Charlton Heston
  • In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. -- Thomas Sowell
  • I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries. -- Rachel Corrie
  • The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions. -- David Souter
  • I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money. -- Daniel J. Evans
  • The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations. -- Seth Shostak
  • If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't. -- Bill Bennett
  • Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me. -- Michael Schur
  • If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results. -- Walter Lang
  • The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
  • And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change. -- John Perkins
  • Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. -- James Buchan
  • In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. -- Mark Cuban
  • If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population -- Nicki Minaj
  • Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
  • A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money. -- Ben Bernanke
  • Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money -- Keith Richards
  • A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest. -- Bob Thaves
  • I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] -- Juvenal
  • It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. -- John Sweeney
  • My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. -- Glenda Jackson
  • The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions. -- Reince Priebus
  • We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money. -- Carly Fiorina
  • The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money -- Nicholas von Hoffman
  • If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money. -- James Surowiecki
  • Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. -- Alain de Botton
  • It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse. -- Hillary Clinton
  • We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
  • We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth. -- Kristi Noem
  • I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime. -- Kenneth Rogoff
  • I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine. -- Andrew Weil
  • It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it? -- Bob Hope
  • Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. -- Andrew Mellon
  • We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax! -- Mohamed El-Erian
  • I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do? -- Bob Hope
  • What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax. -- Mark Billingham
  • Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions. -- Joseph Muscat
  • I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. -- Ronald Reagan
  • The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment. -- Rand Paul
  • Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment. -- George W. Bush
  • Making the tax cuts permanent will continue to grow the economy, create jobs, and put more money in the pockets of the hard-working families of Pennsylvania. -- Tim Murphy
  • If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector -- John Warren Kindt
  • I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country. -- Anthea Turner
  • One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills. -- Marco Rubio
  • I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people. -- Ken Livingstone
  • When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert. -- Dave Ramsey
  • The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends" -- Anne Stuart
  • In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect. -- Mark Shields
  • You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent. -- Steve Chabot
  • Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax. -- Jason Terry
  • Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids -- Harvey Mackay
  • From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing ú20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough. -- Julie Burchill
  • We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden. -- Ron Paul
  • In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people. -- Matthew Continetti
  • Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime. -- Jean Ziegler
  • From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing æ?¢20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough. -- Julie Burchill
  • Yesterday President Obama said, 'We can't continue to treat tax money like monopoly money.' Oh really - how come all those guys on Wall Street got 'get out of jail free' cards? -- Jay Leno
  • All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.-- Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling) -- Richard Finney
  • The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. -- Dave Barry
  • Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school. -- Benjamin Hart
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