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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
Gary Bauer
Will
National
Taxpayer
Other
Programs
President
Once
Promote
Degrading
End
Subsidize
Arts
Endowment
Use
Activities
Amoral
Funds
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.
Grover Norquist
Government
Fight
People
Taxpayer
Group
Lobbying
Spending
OK
Run
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Guy
More
Higher
Higher Levels
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Buildings
Nonsense
Handful
Commitments
Them
Less
Groups
Levels
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.
Grover Norquist
Education
Government
Money
Welfare
Insist
Taxpayer
Defense
Conservatives
Spend
Spending
Books
Those
Examined
Examining
Environment
Demand
Name
Government Agencies
Same
Agencies
Taxpayer Money
Should
Seriousness
The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.
Grover Norquist
Taxpayer
Group
Every
State
Nuts
Always
Referred
Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.
Henry Paulson
Money
Taxpayer
Spent
Enterprise
Misguided
Taxpayer Money
Should
Save
I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.
Henry Paulson
Money
Taxpayer
Resolving
Appropriate
Once
Considered
Brothers
Never
Put
Line
Taxpayer Money
As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.
Henry Paulson
Taxpayer
Pay
Profit
Someone
Risk
Takes
Come
Like
Make
Losses
American
Going
Where
I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.
Henry Paulson
Taxpayer
Take
Support
Putting
Lightly
Institution
Line
Ever
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
Love
Passion
Taxpayer
More
Part
Opera
Does
How
Dominant
Than
Grand
Capable
Average
Really
Many
Lives
Play
The wind industry has made major strides over the past two decades, and they have proven their industry to be efficient and self-sustainable. There is no need for the taxpayer to continue to subsidize a wind start-up tax credit.
James Lankford
Made
Wind
Past
Taxpayer
Strides
Over
Major
Industry
Proven
Continue
Efficient
Decades
Subsidize
Tax
Credit
Start-Up
Two
Need
What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.
Jason Chaffetz
Become
Taxpayer
Those
Dollars
Want
Wasting
Numb
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
Jeff Goodell
War
Reality
Solar
Wind
Long
Power
Energy
Taxpayer
State
Stripping
Would
Promote
Laws
Clean
Attacked
Clean Energy
Investments
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Been
Subsidies
Moves
While
Republicans
Them
Fuels
Standards
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Ridiculed
Bashed
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
Jim Cooper
War
Me
Money
Burden
Few
Taxpayer
Our
Has-Been
Allies
Put
Well
Been
Dollars
Up
American
Where
Required
Shoulder
American Taxpayer
Show
Billion
Billion Dollars
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.
Jim Ryun
Problem
Beginning
Taxpayer
Deficit
Deficit Reduction
Solutions
Easy
Direction
Most
Obvious
Reduction
Dollars
Reforms
Gets
While
Commonsense
Us
Act
Right
Started
Right Direction
Save
The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.
John Kline
Job
Accountability
Taxpayer
Programs
Job Creators
Consolidate
Would
Investment
Development
Over
Ineffective
Dollars
Role
Improve
Improvement
Decisions
Workforce
Act
Use
Enhance
Creators
Dozens
Eliminate
I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.
Karen Handel
Taxpayer
Married
See
Towards
Couple
Any
Going
Want
Funding
Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
Kevin de Leon
Immigration
Police
Safety
Taxpayer
Local
Colossal
Dollars
Trump
Public
Public Safety
Waste
Drafting
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.
Kirsten Gillibrand
Money
Political
Taxpayer
Everyone
Spending
Easily
Favors
See
Lawmakers
Days
Reduce
End
America
Officials
Interest
Elected
Elected Officials
Taxpayer Money
Special
Who
Special Interest
Keep
Wasteful
Wasteful Spending
Honest
I think the wall is stupid; it's a waste of the taxpayer's money. We need the money for job growth, infrastructure, 100 other things... it sends a bad message.
Kirsten Gillibrand
Money
Job
Stupid
Taxpayer
Think
Other
Job Growth
Bad
Message
Wall
Sends
Infrastructure
Waste
Growth
Things
Need
Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.
Lisa Madigan
Education
Opportunity
Higher Education
Taxpayer
Economic
Higher
Federal
Economic Opportunity
Dollars
Provide
Off
American
Unfairly
Meant
Companies
Billions
From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.
Lisa Murkowski
Alone
Family
Women
Money
Family Planning
Important
Taxpayer
Parenthood
Through
Federal
Throughout
Well
Provided
Contraceptive
Cancers
Screening
Title
Low-Income
Taxpayer Money
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Planning
Million
Services
Received
Funding
Funds
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
Year
Nation
Taxpayer
Meltdown
Trillion
Record
Posting
More
Economic
Put
Support
Massive
Line
Than
Wall
Wall Street
Banks
After
Taxpayers
Help
Largest
Street
Profits
Last
Last Year
Since his election, President Trump has made clear that he and his administration will be focusing on ensuring that the government is a smart buyer, getting the most for the taxpayer's dollar.
Marillyn Hewson
Government
Smart
Election
Will
Made
Taxpayer
President
President Trump
Ensuring
Focusing
Administration
He
Clear
Since
Most
Dollar
His
Trump
Getting
Buyer
I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.
Mark McKinnon
Father
Husband
Taxpayer
TV
Economist
Just
Even
Play
Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.
Mark Sanford
Government
People
Too Many People
Taxpayer
Think
Too
Humility
Way
Recognize
Member
Would
Folks
Seem
Above
Boss
Said
Expect
Regular
Team
Many
Each
Served
As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distribute federal taxpayer dollars from that department to Planned Parenthood clinics.
Matt Bevin
Health
Family
Will
Taxpayer
Secretary
Distribute
Direct
Parenthood
Federal
Cabinet
Clinics
Dollars
Governor
Department
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Services
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