#taxpayer

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#around #develop #energy #fact #hike

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#budget #every #everyone #fail #federal

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#both #complacency #hurts #taxpayers

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded. ↗

— John Kasich

#care #companies #cut #day #end

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. ↗

— Scott Walker

#big government #bosses #empower #government #handful

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer. ↗

— Scott Walker

#bosses #leaders #problem #protecting #public

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. ↗

— William Weld

#deep #government #i #money #only

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense. ↗

— Jeanne Kohl-Welles

#breaks #bringing #expense #however #jobs

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. ↗

— Barack Obama

#billion #coastlines #collect #companies #corporate