#taxpayers

General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid. ↗

— Rick Scott

#basically #fair #federal #federal government #forces

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

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#another day #bill #bush #congress #day

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bad #been #billions #brown #confirmed

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year. ↗

— Joe Conason

#amp #anyone #appealed #ben #bush

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

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. ↗

— John Doolittle

#desire #gift #increasing #internet #invented

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#correct #decision #deserve #else #everyone

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#banks #believed #bill #case #change