Top 322 Taxpayer Quotes & Sayings

The IRS isn't the only agency using taxpayer dollars for big bonuses.

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

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.

Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

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.

My administration is committed to continue using taxpayer dollars wisely.

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.

The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

State government owes it to every taxpayer to be as fiscally responsible as possible.

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

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

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.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.

We don't need subsidized corporate welfare schemes that rely on endless bailouts from the taxpayer.

I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.

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

However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

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

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

When George W. Bush tried to roll back taxpayer exposure to a housing crash via Fannie and Freddie, guess what two senators joined a filibuster of the Bush initiative? Yep... those saviors of the working class, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They went to bat for the housing industry and voted to allow taxpayer exposure to escalate.

The taxpayer is entitled to some essential things. Families should be able to provide their children with playgrounds and find places for them in schools. There should be enough hospitals. Water should be provided to all. Surplus electricity should be available. The taxpayer should be comfortable.

Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations.

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.

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those banks and the equity holders in those banks. We could have talked about forcing those investors to take some serious hits on their risky dealings. The idea that taxpayer dollars go in first rather than last - after the equity has been used up - is shocking.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

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

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

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

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Without American leadership at the U.N., countries just continue to talk and socialize and spend taxpayer dollars.

From day one, my focus as a new-breed appropriator was to look for areas where we could save taxpayer dollars.

I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.

It was a real business. And actually from a taxpayer's perspective, every taxpayer should want more Drakens. We were able to do so much more for the government for like one-tenth the price. We need more of that, and that's exactly what Elon is doing at SpaceX by the way.

One of Trump's reforms is to limit the time that workers can use on the job at taxpayer expense working on union activities. What does this have to do with public service? So taxpayers have to pay overcompensated federal employees while they work on union activities so they can get even more taxpayer money.

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

The U.S. government should not spend a single taxpayer dollar to teach children to dislike their country.

The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.

Congress must simply do more to eliminate waste and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

Let me make it very clear. There are no taxpayer funds going to the Adani mine.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

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

Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place.

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.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

In addition to being a terrorist recruiting tool, Guantanamo is a huge drain on taxpayer dollars.