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Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting. -- Paul Tonko
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits. -- Maria Cantwell
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits." -- Maria Cantwell
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer. -- Donald Rumsfeld
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer. -- Scott Walker
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -- Ronald Reagan
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research. -- Sandy Adams
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. -- Rick Perry
The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy. -- Hillary Clinton
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company. -- James Hansen
I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three. -- Sal Albanese
We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research. -- Mike Pence
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The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer. -- Richard M. Nixon
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. -- Grover Norquist
I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. -- Rick Larsen
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. -- H. L. Mencken
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy. -- Ann Coulter
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped. -- Richard M. Nixon
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. -- Tony Abbott
Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss. -- Mark Sanford
As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change. -- Tadashi Yanai
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar. -- Jeff Goodell
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. -- Grover Norquist
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved. -- Vince Cable
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. -- Pete Hegseth
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs. -- John Sununu
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. -- Nick Turse
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars. -- Elizabeth Warren
It's lose, lose for the taxpayer -- John Warren Kindt
The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass. -- Andrew Wilkow
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer. -- Rand Paul
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer. -- Edward Kennedy
Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew. -- Gladys Taber
Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V. -- Buzz Aldrin
I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer. -- George Deukmejian
First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential. -- Jim Ramstad
When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole. -- Demetri Martin
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. -- Scott Walker
When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough. -- John McCain
Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. -- Ron Paul
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies. -- Michelle Malkin
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. -- H. L. Mencken
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. -- Georges Bernanos
Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions. -- John Boehner
I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer. -- Anthony Scaramucci
I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. -- Henry Paulson
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource. -- Nadya Suleman
Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all. -- Larry Niven
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. -- Spencer Bachus
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional. -- Gail Collins
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce. -- Todd Young
For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits. -- Mimi Kennedy
The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget -- Charles O. Rossotti
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. -- Ralph Nader
There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money. -- Andrew Mitchell
As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections. -- John Harwood
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files. -- Rocky Anderson
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information. -- Melissa Bean
My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep. -- William Weld
After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take. -- Jerry A. Webman
The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars. -- Jill Stein
If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big. -- Jeb Hensarling
We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free. -- Alan Keyes
When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community. -- Donald Rumsfeld
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. -- Israel Zangwill
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. -- Israel Zangwill
If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense. -- H. L. Mencken
What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery. -- Eric Cantor
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. -- Pete Hegseth
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales. -- Dave Barry
The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government. -- Franklin Pierce
The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan. -- David Bergland
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. -- Cal Thomas
It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet. -- Raul Ruiz
Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children. -- Phyllis Schlafly
The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over. -- Lindsey Graham
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 purest examples of socialism existing in America. -- Tom L. Johnson
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business. -- Andrew Mellon
Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons. -- Ann Coulter
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies. -- Al Franken
Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty. -- John F. Kerry
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,. -- Anthony Weiner
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. -- George Sutherland
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money. -- Robert Byrd
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money -- Robert Byrd
We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research -- Mike Pence
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities. -- Gary Bauer
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars. -- Michael Dean Crapo
What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions. -- Mitch McConnell
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers. -- Dana Rohrabacher
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars. -- Michael Dean Crapo
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war. -- Jim Cooper
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars. -- Jim Ryun
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war." -- Jim Cooper
Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars. -- Mark Steyn
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. -- Jeff Miller
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America! -- Patricia Arquette
The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer. -- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects. -- Chris Chocola
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants. -- Nathan Deal
As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses. -- Henry Paulson
If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical. -- Danny Boyle
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. -- Dave Barry
It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion. -- Eric Cantor
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government. -- Grover Norquist
The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars. -- John Kline

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