#taxpayers

Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#banks #economic #help #largest #last

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers. ↗

— Jim Costa

#assist #communities #crime #criminals #distributed

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#children #classroom #common #common sense #dollars

I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you. ↗

— Rob McKenna

#effectively #governor #i #including #job

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#anybody #became #because #did #first

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. ↗

— Herman Cain

#age #allow #approaching #continue #fix

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

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#believed #better #could #ever #i

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

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#american taxpayers #code #complex #compliance #expensive