Taxpayer Quotes

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The taxpayer: that`s someone who works for the federal government but doesn`t have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan

On human embryonic stem cell research: "I found that the cloning of human embryos will be used in the process and that, for me, I have an ethical problem with that. Why do I, as a taxpayer, have to fund something I believe is unethical?"

- Mel Gibson

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

- Donald Rumsfeld

I don`t know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

- John Anderson

Essentially, it is a product of increasing competition. The challenge is that the state schools have the advantage of taxpayer support. Private schools have to compete.

- David Miller

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

- Larry Craig

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

(Outsourcing collections can be more cost-effective, especially when dealing with debtors is a private firm`s core competency. Relying on an outsourcer also provides a central location for the collection of all debts.) A taxpayer that might owe taxes, court fines and child support is now going to get just one contact into their home instead of three or four, ... It cuts down on any confusion.

- Mike Reynolds

A taxpayer that might owe taxes, court fines and child support is now going to get just one contact into their home instead of three or four. It cuts down on any confusion.

- Mike Reynolds

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

- Jeff Miller

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

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 average homestead is valued at just over $203,000. The average taxpayer living in such a home will pay about $42 a year, ... In the current year, they`re paying $771, and it`s projected to go to $813.

- Christian Smith

I would have waited a few months, and see what was going to happen and see if maybe the taxpayer could have a reduction in property tax and maybe be more amenable to spending money.

- Donna Williams

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we`ve fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi`s approach.

- Marsha Blackburn

This jail thing is not going to go away, ... I can think of a lot more places where wed rather spend taxpayer money, but this jail thing is not going to go away. Its only going to get worse.

- John Carter

The taxpayer paid between $5000 and $10,000 to help him elude capture -- what a disgrace -- no one forced him to get the tattoo,

- David Garrett

Picking a class of taxpayer and saying, `You get to pay for this,` that`s unconstitutional,

- John Long

extreme misuse of taxpayer dollars.

- Bill Thomas

In-state tuition is a benefit for citizens. These students would be getting a taxpayer benefit at the expense of citizens.

- Susan Tully

This is not a bailout, ... This is not taxpayer money. This is providing the company the flexibility they need to meet their obligations and therefore protect the taxpayers.

- Tom Price

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

- John Ensign

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.

- Alan Norquist

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

- Alejandro Urrego

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.

- Alex Hertenstein

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.

- Alexandre Coimbra

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.

- Alfonso Felder

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

- Alice Gilborn

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.

- Alice Golembo

The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses, particularly where taxpayer money is concerned.

- Alice Lincoln

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.

- Amanda Sluss

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.

- Amber Bacon

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.

- American Society

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.

- Ana Verley

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.

- Andrew Schroepfer

Any time there is a natural disaster, FEMA is trotted out as an example of how well government programs work. In reality, by using taxpayer dollars to provide disaster relief and subsidized insurance, FEMA itself encourages Americans to build in disaster-prone areas and makes the rest of us pick up the tab for those risky decisions. Americans should not be forced to pay the cost of rebuilding oceanfront summer homes.

- Andy Daigle

I said `no.` I would vote `no,` ... I am reminded of Rogers firefighters who were stuck in a hotel room a few weeks ago. Our taxpayer dollars are to take care of our taxpayers here in Benton County ... I work for Habitat for Humanity, so I do not have a cold heart. I am just trying to be conscientious.

- Anne Johnson

If the object is to spend less on defense, we would be wise to make sure that we are not spending U.S. taxpayer dollars to arm our potential opponents.

- Anthony Conchel

To use taxpayers` money to send -- whether it`s in the community or outside the community -- to organizations without getting a clear and direct taxpayer benefit, a public benefit, is wrong.

- Archie Thompson

Literally the most trivial thing gets charged to the taxpayer, (and) things that the average person would never think of trying to buy, like a $70 steak,

- Arieh Sharon

It`s a philosophical difference that Ray and I have about whether the Palo Verde rewards should have gone back to the ratepayer or should it be applied to the city to be used to lower electric costs in providing taxpayer services,

- Art Johnson

The IRS has worked closely with my office to devise procedures that strike the proper balance between combating suspected tax fraud and protecting taxpayer rights, particularly the rights of honest taxpayers whose refunds are frozen in error.

- Augusta Stowe-Gullen

At a minimum, this procedure constitutes an extraordinary violation of fundamental taxpayer rights and fairness. In our view, it may also constitute a violation of due process of law.

- Augusta Stowe-Gullen

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer`s money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."

- Thomas Sowell