Quotes About Public money

Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.

Too often scientists sell hypothetical theories to the large public, as if they were established theories. I have seen this often done, for instance, with string theory. I think this is a great mistake, because it questions the credibility itself of science. We scientists live out of public money and it is our duty to be fully honest in reporting what we know and what we do not know. We are paid to dream, but we must not sell our dreams for established realities.

South Dakota's new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

Reliance share price is likely to close @ Rs.2400 today and most probably tomorrow it will open @ Rs.2375. Still traders have opportunity to come out of all shares as companies are in spree of looting public money invested in stock market. The more people invest in shares, the more the stock price will plunge down

SENSEX and NIFTY are not barometer of share price . It misguides traders and investors. Stock exchanges helps only companies to loot public money. Good companies like PSUs have less price of shares and rarely rise while fraud private companies have huge share price with great volatility

La ilusión de que el dinero público puede pagar la democracia debe ser revisada radicalmente. La sociedad toda debe pagar por su democracia, no sólo el erario público.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honour. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labour and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

For the sake of "job creation," in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than elsewhere. The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Why is there no governmental oversight of how public money is spent by these organizations and churches? Probably because there is an assumption that if it is religious, it must be good.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

No president in history has burned more public money to sustain his personal lifestyle than Donald Trump. Three-quarters of the way through his first year in office, President Trump was on track to spend more on travel in one year of his presidency than Barack Obama in eight -- even though Trump only rarely ventured west of the Mississippi or across any ocean.

The state has moved from being the main creator of public money to being a supplicant 'housewife'.

There are two monetary circuits in contemporary economies, a public money circuit and a commercial money circuit. Both create and circulate the public currency. The difference between them is that one is based on debt, the other is not.

For every $135 of public money spent on an asylum-seeker in Europe, just $1 is spent on a refugee in the developing world.