Quotes About Public funds

Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign.

Despite the fact that Uncle Rulon and his followers regard the governments of Arizona, Utah, and the United States as Satanic forces out to destroy the UEP, their polygamous community receives more than $6 million a year in public funds.

Every year he would select a few projects that he felt had no merit and would award them a golden fleece. As in "fleecing" the taxpayers.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

The government endangers us with our own money.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

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.

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

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.