Quotes About Public

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons.

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

Fame is great when everything in your life is going well. But when it goes wrong, when you're having to jump on a bus, because you can't afford to pay for a taxi, and you catch people looking at you. It might sound strange, but you feel ashamed. And that's hard to deal with.

For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.

I understand that some people are angry about taxi services. A taxi fare hike should be accompanied by better customer service.

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.

Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer.

The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.

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

As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.

Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

In 2012, a hamburger cost Amtrak $16.15, with riders paying $9.50. This means that we, the taxpayers, are forced to pick up the tab for the remaining $6.65 through subsidies provided to Amtrak.

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure the assets and liabilities, and take steps to provide fair benefits to public employees that limit taxpayers' liability.

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

Accountability and value for money for taxpayers must be at the heart of how the BBC is funded.