Taxpayer Quotes

You've taken the Seneca Valley taxpayers for roughly $320,000. - Tom Roth

You've got the Berlin subway being built by Berlin taxpayers, leased to some corporation in America... There's no risk. It will never be the property of the corporation. And they get the tax benefits. Indirectly, you're having American taxpayers pay for the infrastructure of Europe. - Charles Grassley

You're talking about a potential commitment almost to the level of the financial commitment we're putting into Iraq in terms of resources for evacuation, helping people rebuild, and remediation (of environment). This is a substantial hit that will hit both the taxpayers and the insurance companies. - Hugh Kaufman

You're spending taxpayer dollars, so a reasonable degree of transparency is required. But if someone has an expectation that you would have the same efficiencies as in a private sector supply chain, that's probably not going to happen, because private sector doesn't have to worry about transparency. When it's taxpayer money, additional steps are required. - Brian Mersereau

You're not fulfilling your responsibilities. You're not doing what you're supposed to be doing in protecting the troops. You're not doing what you ought to do to protect U.S. taxpayers. - Dennis Kucinich

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing. - Alex Knott

You want to look at both of them. You have to look at the total program cost, though, because that is what the taxpayer is actually paying. - John Pike

You scratch your head and wonder. They're obviously not doing anybody any good sitting out here at the airport. ... Knowing the conditions people are living in and the need for these houses, seeing them sitting up here in red tape is disconcerting, to say the least, and a total waste of the taxpayers' money. - Dennis Ramsey

You not only have changes in personnel, but you have increased involvement from the division of administration as this moves up the ladder which is typical of most state contracts. We have a heavy burden on our end in terms of how this project moves forward and how the taxpayers' dollars are spent. - Richard House

You have to give the people under the Golden Dome a lot of credit. There's 50 ways to leave your lover and there's 50 ways to skin a property taxpayer. - Steven Jeffrey