Quotes About Public funds

The US Treasury is simply not a church building fund.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

When we are asked to bail out corporations and banks, or pass tax bills that shift billions in public dollars out of government, we must ask ourselves, who were we truly sent here to advocate for?

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.

There is nothing at which government is more adept or diligent than relieving people of their money.

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

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

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

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

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

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

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

The undiscussed truth is that Planned Parenthood still operates in line with these ideas today. Planned Parenthood clinics—and abortion clinics generally—are frequently located in inner city areas where they can prey on poor minority women, and receive public funds for doing so.

This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Which brings to mind a quote from Margaret Thatcher: 'Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders' assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. The

Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders' assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk.

Share prices go up abnormally when there are not enough investors and fall down sharply when enough public money has been collected by the listed companies

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

My administration is committed to continue using taxpayer dollars wisely.