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There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses. -- David Cameron
Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. -- Matt Blunt
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes. -- Melissa Bean
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. -- Stephen Harper
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice. -- Christopher Dodd
Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. -- Jerry Brown
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. -- Marco Rubio
The taxpayers deserve accountability. -- Byron Dorgan
We want taxpayers, not tax wasters. -- Rick Perry
Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. -- Chuck Grassley
What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes. -- Geoff Davis
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government. -- Ken Buck
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -- Ronald Reagan
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers. -- Carl Paladino
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. -- Bob Beauprez
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. -- Thomas Sowell
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization. -- Peter Hain
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
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
See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs. -- Dave Barry
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. -- Abraham Lincoln
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems. -- Bill Nye
Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts -- John Warren Kindt
Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it. -- Zarina Bibi
Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous. -- Mike Rogers
Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets. -- Rick Scott
Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job. -- William Cohen
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
The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic. -- Ric Keller
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. -- Ric Keller
Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups? -- Scott Walker
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually. -- John M. McHugh
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. -- Tom Harkin
I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children. -- Bruce Rauner
The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking taxpayers all across this country. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. -- Barack Obama
All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream. -- John Salazar
The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community. -- Marco Rubio
Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. -- Vince Cable
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system. -- Nancy Pelosi
So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people. -- Scott Walker
To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it. -- David Malpass
Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank. -- Sean Quinn
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. -- Frank Gaffney
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -- Chesty Puller
But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded. -- John Kasich
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact. -- Herman Cain
Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers -- John Warren Kindt
Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers -- John Warren Kindt
Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers... -- Glenn Reynolds
...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers -- Jason Kidd
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government -- John Warren Kindt
The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money... -- Doug Bandow
I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built. -- Steve King
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. -- Grover Norquist
Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich. -- George Osborne
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. -- Bill Nye
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money. -- Bobby Scott
Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. -- Lamar S. Smith
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers. -- Loretta Lynch
The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers. -- Ann Coulter
However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers. -- George Soros
President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers. -- Austin Ligon
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. -- Herbert Hoover
Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime. -- Anita Roddick
Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job. -- James Cook
Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system. -- Hillary Clinton
Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much. -- Jason Chaffetz
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs. -- Marco Rubio
It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually." -- John M. McHugh
Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development -- John Warren Kindt
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. -- Timothy Noah
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. -- Ron Paul
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive. -- Jim Ramstad
Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts. -- Jason Chaffetz
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back -- Will Rogers
Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose. -- Evan Esar
People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it. -- Mitt Romney
The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected. -- David B. Axelrod
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. -- Denis Healey
Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system? -- Tony Abbott
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. -- Henry Paulson
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money. -- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money. -- Margaret Thatcher
We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that. -- Debbie Stabenow
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. -- C. S. Lewis
There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day. -- Gary Bauer
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out -- Will Rogers
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. -- Charles Koch
Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility. -- Thomas Sowell
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
The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. -- Michele Bachmann
Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens. -- J. James Exon
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. -- George Soros
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually." -- George Soros
Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few. -- Mark McKinnon
I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials. -- Scott McCallum
But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not. -- John Thune
You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that. -- Michele Bachmann
Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America. -- Hillary Clinton
If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest. -- Mark Begich
I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke. -- Bob Hope
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. -- Paul Ryan
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws. -- Paul Laxalt
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics. -- Thomas Sowell
To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job. -- Ann Coulter
Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense. -- Jeanne Kohl-Welles
While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account. -- Jim Cooper
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me. -- Grover Norquist
It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit. -- David Burge
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers. -- James Bovard
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense. -- Winston Churchill
I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve. It's taxpayers money that is being used there -- Harry Reid
Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference? -- Twyla Tharp

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