Taxpayers Quotes

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.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

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.

When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.

The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.

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.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

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

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

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.

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.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

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.

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.