When the taxpayers are burdened, you hear about the property tax rate and not the programs the schools are providing.

Frank Belluscio

I think taxpayers will say we need to take care of people and we shouldn't walk away from people with insurance policies.

Bob Hunter

As a result Oracle discovered both the Independent Institute and the National Taxpayer's Union were misrepresenting themselves as independent advocacy groups when in fact they were funded by Microsoft for the express purpose to influence public opinion in favor of Microsoft in the antitrust trial.

Jennifer Glass

It is an enormous expense, and it's all paid for by the taxpayers. There is a real need for change.

David Grubb

Taxpayers who are already stretched to their limit by our highest-in-the-nation property taxes may be forced to pick up and leave the state. Businesses that have already rated this as one of the worst business climates in the nation will move operations elsewhere or forgo plans to expand.

Alex Decroce

The leadership on this board has used up two years and held two votes at a considerable cost to the taxpayers. It is now time for them to step aside and allow the community to develop a plan to fix our school.

John Flora

I should think the taxpayers would be upset if they thought we weren't preparing to help out the citizens in case of a catastrophic event.

Harold Gehman

I said 'no.' I would vote 'no,' ... I am reminded of Rogers firefighters who were stuck in a hotel room a few weeks ago. Our taxpayer dollars are to take care of our taxpayers here in Benton County ... I work for Habitat for Humanity, so I do not have a cold heart. I am just trying to be conscientious.

Bill Adams

The board's irresponsible behavior and failure to meet its basic duties shortchanged the taxpayers and the students of the district over and over again.

Alan G. Hevesi

We are regular people who are sick and tired of the Legislature not listening to taxpayers' desire to cut spending.

Maria Martinez

The IRS suspects there's something wrong, or they wouldn't have picked you to start with. Taxpayers just prolong the process.

Fred Daily

It really (angers me) because these people lied with impunity and secondly it cost the defendants a lot of money and time, and cost the taxpayers.

Richard Harris

The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.

William S. Cohen

I'm appalled. We as taxpayers and parents need to know what's going on. We should be able to see that video - I told Mr. Holland it could exonerate the district from bad reporting.

Pete Goeddertz

He absolutely knows that building it at Kennedy Space Center is the best thing to do for astronauts' safety, for the economic success of the program and to save taxpayers' money.

Dan Mclaughlin

It is irresponsible for the city attorney, who has been elected to protect the interests of the city, to continue acting in a manner that could result in such disastrous financial consequences for San Diego's taxpayers.

Toni Atkins

We want people to get the refunds they're entitled to. Taxpayers can't get a refund if they don't file a return.

Mark Everson

This program is effective and strictly monitored. Once again this service does not cost the taxpayers a dime, it is 10 dollars to the offender.

Dan Crawford

I'm concerned and have been for a while that taxpayers cannot continue to shoulder this burden.

Henry Scheier

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Robert Mahon

If people are taking the taxpayer's money you need to be quite clear about not only that it's going to be built, but that there's a really good management team there that know how to run it.

Gaynor Coley

We use a minimal amount of taxpayers money on our battle with drugs, ... It gives me great pleasure to buy drugs in our drug efforts with money seized from other drug dealers.

John Morris

If Island Heights votes to join us in the study, it will join us in the potential tax savings. If they don't, and we pursue withdrawal, it could cost Island Heights taxpayers even more money to send children to Central Regional.

David Meyer

We can always do better and we will by making sure government respects the wishes of those who fund it ? the hardworking taxpayers.

Jim Gibbons

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

David Mcintosh

Taxpayers who want to save IHT and who have children under 18 should seriously consider setting up suitable trusts before April 6, 2006.

Charles Hutton

A record number of South Carolina taxpayers filed electronically through their home computers.

Dianne Besunder

Simply put, this is a monopoly within Medicare that is now working against the patients it was intended to help and is costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars.

Gary Peterson

It's a clear majority headed toward the League of Taxpayers.

Richard Zuercher

The IRS has worked closely with my office to devise procedures that strike the proper balance between combating suspected tax fraud and protecting taxpayer rights, particularly the rights of honest taxpayers whose refunds are frozen in error.

Nina Olson

For every $1 of taxpayer's money used for collecting child support, the state collects $5.58.

Roger Munns

I am not looking for a place to cut a deal, cut a bargain or to put something over on the county, ... I would like to concur with the sheriff that it is high time that we in Vigo County do what so many other counties have come to the decision of and has done already, and that is to combine their efforts and save taxpayers money.

Kevin Burke

Why are the taxpayers having to pick up the tab for a corporation that is making record profits? There's no reason why they shouldn't pay for it themselves.

Louie Miller

Mr. Chretien will not be looking to the taxpayers of Canada to fund his legal fees for this application.

Peter Doody

The kind of waste we are talking about is a trip to London that cost taxpayers $7,000 for premium class that, if it had been a coach trip, would have cost $700.

Greg Kutz

Bulging waistlines are growing and it's going to cost taxpayers more dollars regardless of where you live.

Shelley Hearne

Why should we pay if we're not culpable of anything? They're trying to hold the taxpayers responsible, and based on the media reports I've seen, there has been no link.

Councilman Dennis Zine

We support education, but this is not a project that needs to be funded by the Nueces County taxpayers. There are many uses for surplus money in Nueces County. There are portions of the unincorporated area that do not have potable water. There are roads that need to be constructed or improved.

Terry Carter

He screwed up, and both [former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director] Michael Brown and [Homeland Security Secretary] Michael Chertoff really screwed up, so taxpayers are going to get the bill. Bush is overcompensating by promising the moon because his administration screwed up. Politics is driving policy.

Chris Edwards

[Miller said the passage of the bond was important, since he expects the value of the property to increase in the coming years, which would make it a more expensive purchase for taxpayers.] Looking at it from a money point of view, I think we did the right thing, ... We knew it was going to pass.

George Miller

We take the business case extremely seriously to ensure best value for taxpayers.

Andrew Barker

Seven out of 10 taxpayers will be able to electronically file for free by going to IRS.gov and choosing Free File.

Christopher Miller

Taxpayers are not on the hook, and the business owners who want it have indicated they're willing to pay for it.

Gary Knapp

What we've really got to do is take this one-off opportunity to put some incentive in the tax system for all taxpayers and to give tax relief to those middle-income earners left behind in the last couple of budgets.

Wayne Swan

I think she's the best person for the job, bar none. She has really demonstrated over the past three-and-a-half years her ability to work with mayors in dealing with the hot-button issues impacting on the quality of life of our taxpayers.

Bill Dressel

We had not planned to grandstand on the issue. We simply planned to do the responsible thing with taxpayers' money.

Stacie Temple

American taxpayers, and anyone concerned with the nation's long-term fiscal stability, have won a great victory today.

Deborah Pryce

American taxpayers are forced to subsidize education, health care, food stamps and other generous government services for illegal immigrants, as well as the printing of government documents in other languages.

Carol Reed

If Peter Costello wants more taxpayers, he is going to have to find more child-care places so mothers can actually get back to work.

Annette Beacher

Financial aid is a privilege and you have to earn it. Using drugs while in college shows you are not the kind of person taxpayers should trust making an investment in.

Tony Mcdonald

We at Sars should try to be creative, and to demonstrate goodwill. But out there, you will always have those who are being deliberately evasive. And honest taxpayers will want us to create a level playing field.

Pravin Gordhan

Historically we have two percent of taxpayers in Sedgwick county protest their valuation.

Chris Morlan

The vote was a vote for common sense and basic fairness. It is a victory for Florida taxpayers, working families and businesses who can all breathe a little bit easier knowing that once this legislation is signed they'll be less likely to be targeted for a lawsuit simply because they have the ability to pay.

Slade O'brien

These vetoes basically say to these people that they can flout the law without repercussions, ... Ordinary taxpayers can't do that.

Lenny Goldberg

If the released information is incorrect, the school district might not have immunity, and taxpayers could be subject to a lawsuit.

Bill Cullen

We don't try to pretend that we're doing this just out of the goodness of our hearts to protect Wal-Mart workers. And this isn't just about protecting taxpayers. It's also about protecting good union jobs in the retail sector that are disappearing because of Wal-Mart's business model.

David Groves

The bottom line: Taxpayers will pay about the same.

Charles Rossotti

They've simply stalled this in some sort of political stalemate. More responsible approaches to this on behalf of the taxpayers are warranted.

James Lawrence

Instead of being forthright and responsive to their constituents, the thing I really gag on is they've disenfranchised the people from electing this person to the board. It's literally a crime that was perpetrated on the taxpayers and the town on this action.

Gere Dale

I ask that you vote to return the unused amount from the building construction fund to the taxpayers.

Judy Hansen

We haven't made any decisions for tolling or not tolling or doing public-private partnerships. But we have an obligation to taxpayers to study any means we have for addressing the transportation needs we have in Utah.

Nile Easton

We heard from the taxpayers, ... I think that's all valid concern. I think the trade-off will be positive. We're going to spend $16,000 to turn that into green space.

Mark Owen

I think the taxpayers of Missouri would feel better served if the governor spent more time in Jefferson City, ... I think this is more true as the governor in general has become more powerful in the state.

George Connor

There is just more of the good old boy system taking care of its political allies, ... FEMA and the others have put out these contracts in such a haphazard manner, I don't know how they can come up with anything that is accountable to the taxpayers.

Bennie Thompson

Because their tax dollars are paying for the buyout, the taxpayers deserve to know why Dr. Sable was removed from her position.

Jack Wagner

Their errors have been costly to Martin County taxpayers, and an escalating seven-year disaster for the neighborhood in the runway protection zone and airport users.

David Shore

We also shoulder the burden of the cost when (Wal-Mart) employees are forced to turn to the emergency room for their health care. This isn't fair. It's not fair for the employees and it's not fair for the taxpayers.

Rick Varco

Full, open deliberations can yield a better result for all of North Carolina, ... State taxpayers deserve full accountability of how the state spends their money.

Roy Cooper

It would be premature to jump to the conclusion that the industry is somehow cheating taxpayers. I don't think there's any indication in the article that any specific company acted inappropriately. This may be more of an issue for the Department of Interior and the Minerals Management Service than it is for the industry.

Mark Stultz

Within seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, ... federal taxpayers will have spent 50 percent more than the combined annual budgets of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

John Hostettler

The City Council and the mayor, all them, are the ones who are responsible for this. So if anybody is costing the taxpayers, it's our elected officials that are costing them.

Jeanette Surratt

The supervisors here don't answer to anybody, ... They come back and don't answer to the taxpayers, and they don't come back and answer to the city's administration to explain what's going on.

Don Hudson

This report is particularly timely now in light of the recent news of Asarco, once the nation's largest mining company, going bankrupt, leaving U.S. taxpayers with more than $1 billion in unfunded environmental liabilities.

David Chambers

It's the correct decision. I've had tremendous confidence since I filed the lawsuit. It was such a clear-cut abuse of the tort fund. Because of this decision, the taxing bodies may have to pay 15 to 20 percent of the more than $1 million that was illegally used to the estimated 2,000 taxpayers who joined the lawsuit.

Robert Slattery

We can do this under the economics of our business that makes sense and get a return on our investment. And we don't need to burden the taxpayers of the city of New York or the state of New York with that request, and we're not going to.

James Dolan

I know they're frustrated. I know they're tired. So are taxpayers.

Patrick Perry

This is a huge victory. My candidacy shows that the river of discontent is real and people are ready for a change. They want a county judge that looks after their interests and does not consider taxpayers as cash cows for every whim of government.

Keith Self

We must reduce spending. Look at what the legislature is doing right now. They are getting $9 million from the lottery and are planning to spend it. Give the money back to the taxpayers. Raising income tax for property tax relief makes sense.

Ron Ruff

Conservatives throughout the United States are increasingly losing faith in the president and the Republican leadership in Congress to adequately prioritize and rein in overall federal spending, American taxpayers have witnessed the largest spending increase under any preceding president and Congress since the Great Depression.

David Keene

The troubling thing is the court has approved a federal system that forces taxpayers to subsidize religious indoctrination.

Michael Simpson

We're trying to be fiscally responsible to the taxpayers, and there is $150,000 sitting out there that we've already paid to Waste Management. We're going to try to get some of that back.

Don Flickinger

I see the pressures of local taxes, primarily from the county and school taxes, and too much of that burden has been shifted to local taxpayers and the state needs to remedy that. Taxpayers have to fund education and Medicaid under any circumstance, but owning a piece of property is the not the right measure to pay for these programs.

Tim Gordon

The concept is good. I don't know if the current administration would know how to enforce it. But it's not a waste of taxpayers' money if it gets us to recognize the problem and find a solution.

Robert Roach

I want the tax payers to look at taxes the way a banker looks at the prime rate. With a flat tax, Congress would have to send their grade cards annually to the taxpayers.

Charles Weasel

That is absolutely appropriate and I commend them for that. That's different from a governmental agency using taxpayers' dollars.

Jim Malcolm

I agree that something needs to be done to the beach, but what if we put all this taxpayers' money into the project and a hurricane comes through and wipes away all of our efforts.

Wayne Gray

We don't have to sue our own government. They should listen to us. I'm being paid by the taxpayers. They're being paid by the taxpayers. We work for the people and it is very clear that the people don't want it.

Bernie Smith

In the budget climate of California, the governor feels he shouldn't unduly burden the taxpayers.

Marty Wilson

It's in the taxpayers' interest to pay the least and get the most.

Ryan Cummins

You can pay now or pay later. You can pay for his rehab; then, he gets out at 18 and re-offends. Taxpayers are paying for (the Department of Corrections), too, so what money did you save?

Jim Todd

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Clay Johnson

We know that we have a big responsibility to the parents, to the students, and to the public taxpayers to make sure that our students are having the opportunity to graduate in a timely fashion.

James Huffines

The idea is to reduce the burden on taxpayers.

Joseph Bankman

My running mates and I may have potentially saved the county taxpayers millions in unnecessary subsidies earmarked for these developers already, because these freeholders now know that voting taxpayers are watching their every move on this stadium.

Andrew Tidd

He's using taxpayers' own money to buy votes. It's common for governments to send checks after disasters, and three years of Sanford is a disaster.

Rod Shealy

Each year you have to be approved after the IRS examines the results of the previous year. We have been approved for the fourth consecutive year to partner with the IRS. It is a free service for low-income and elderly taxpayers.

Len Scholl

The school?s expenses and the town?s expenses are going up, but so are the taxpayers.

Scott Veley

We safely delivered a very thorough cleanup significantly under budget and ahead of schedule, saving the U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars.

John Corsi

For taxpayers, it means doing your taxes twice.

Mark Luscombe

Thousand of dollars of the personal expenses were charged to the taxpayers.

Randy Brock

I think it is a very, very prestigious award for Story County. It shows that we are truly energy efficient and trying to spend the taxpayers' dollars right ... It also shows Story County is doing the right thing.

Al Hahn

The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise have pulled the rug out from under generations of families who've grown this crop.

Saxby Chambliss

Plus, when you look at it from a global policy perspective, every single person we can get covered in preventative health care is someone not going to emergency rooms uninsured that we all end up paying for as taxpayers.

Josh Allen

They created an issue. They want the taxpayers of Ada County to pay to solve the issue. And they want to hold motorists hostage until they get the terms to their liking. It's extortion, plain and simple.

Craig Quintana

Here's a program that saves taxpayers time and money, but most of all, it saves them the aggravation and anxiety they have when confronted with a hard-to-understand tax form.

Joseph Bankman

The Borough of Pitcairn has a financial responsibility to taxpayers, as well as to the hardworking employees who provide important government services like police protection, to make sure its pension obligations are fully funded. My department will work closely with municipal leaders to make sure this obligation is met.

Jack Wagner

People who are here illegally should not benefit on the backs of taxpayers, ... Far from being welcomed with a discount, (they) should be evicted immediately.

Michael Carroll

We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.

Chief Gary Ogden

This year we have not done a thorough enough job going through the budget to look for reductions. A 7 percent increase is too much for the increasingly stressed taxpayers in this town to handle. With less money, I believe that we would still be able to sustain the high quality schools that we have.

Tom Fiorentino

We ask you to consider, if that option is still on the table, that will be a cost borne by the citizen taxpayers.

Rudy Eschbach

If they refuse, in my opinion, Chairman Barnett should remove them. The employees and taxpayers have suffered enough.

Attorney Charles Garnati

I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, ... When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.

Chuck Grassley

You've got three choices: the taxpayers, the companies or Santa Claus ... Theoretically, you could take it out of the hide of the employees, but practically, nobody's looking to do that.

Douglas Elliott

I don't want to waste the taxpayers' money in Louisiana.

Victor Thompson

Three cents sounds good. We do have a surplus and we should do something about the surplus and this is a way of giving something back to the taxpayers.

Charles Feaga

I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.

Burt Aaronson

We have to pay extra attention at this point, as we move forward, too make sure that we are providing good value to the taxpayers who actually fund all of these vehicles and pay for all the gas that we use.

Maggie Brooks

We are very pleased that the money has been placed back in the budget and we can continue to patrol the parkways with no expense to our taxpayers.

Susan Tolchin

The part that concerns me the most is the 400-percent site costs. It scares me that we might even be over the numbers for referendum if you took a harder look at it. We run the risk of the Pennsylvania Department of Education not giving reimbursement if we don?t meet the numbers, and that affects taxpayers.

Ammon Morgan

Kentucky taxpayers do not want their dollars funding discrimination.

Christina Gilgor

I want to reassure local taxpayers that their investment is making good money and we have that at a good percentage, and we're also expending money and putting it to good use, ... We are expending more than the interest that we're making back on the money - we're starting to spend a little bit more into the principal - but not very much.

Pat O'connor

The owners of this library are the taxpayers who put up the money to get it built. I am disappointed for the children -- that they don't have their library.

Diane Davis

You can blame the taxpayers of the city of Niagara Falls. Don't blame us.

Richard Sullivan

The taxpayers of Sonoma County should not be asked to build a Nordstrom's.

Paul Kelley

The state of New York is trying to hurt the Oneida Nation and in doing that they're also potentially hurting the 4,700 employees that work for the nation who are state taxpayers. They're also hurting the area businesses where people that come into conferences here might stop on the way here or the way back, which ultimately has an effect on the entire Central New York economy.

Mark Emery

People can take simple steps to stamp out waste, such as non-taxpayers filling in a simple form, or married couples making sure they use up both tax-free personal allowances.

David Elms

The taxpayers of the entire district have subsidized everything we've done for years. That is something the board does not want to make worse.

Mike Wilson

If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she's well enough to go home, ... They've treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it's a waste of the taxpayers' money to prosecute her.

Andrea Yates

You can build a zoo virtually anywhere, but you cannot rebuild a park. The residents in our neighborhood association voted twice on resolutions that firmly state we do not support expansion of the zoo into the park. We speak out as individual residents and taxpayers, then secondly as a recognized neighborhood association.

Mel Pins

It has taken more than 10 years and an enormous amount of time, money and emotional energy, but we know that the fight is by no means over. We can only hope this sends a message to the provinces to stop spending taxpayers' money to fight gun owners' battles.

Wendy Cukier

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.

Democratic Govjim Doyle

Increasing the length of the automatic extension will save taxpayers some time and trouble, but it's still smart to file as soon as you can.

Mark Luscombe

NASA does not currently have a financial system that can properly account for the taxpayers' dollars to support program managers with accurate financial information necessary to carry out their responsibilities.

Robert Cobb

Most property taxpayers understand intuitively that 'revisiting Proposition 13' is code for doing away with the protections that provide security to homeowners.

Jon Coupal

That is a burden not just on people struggling to make ends meet, it becomes a burden on taxpayers, it becomes a burden on communities, and Wal-Mart sits back and counts their billions.

Tracy Sefl

Honestly, I think the citizens of this county, the taxpayers, expect us to do the right thing here. We're just trying to go by the simple principle of how would you like to be treated if in this situation.

Gary Hester

These taxpayers have gone all year without the money — money they unnecessarily overpaid to the government to begin with — and suddenly they are in a hurry to get it back. But even a cash advance on a credit card is more attractive than a RAL at these rates if they are that hard up for cash.

Gail Cunningham

The general consensus of the committee is we think this is a good idea, ... We just want to make sure we're prudently spending the taxpayer's money.

Brad Little

State and local governments are caught in a local bidding war. The only losers are the taxpayers.

Peter Enrich

Idaho Power's customers are taxpayers, too.

Greg Panter

I believe you have to run it as a business, and you have to do it thinking about the taxpayers, the people footing the bills. I believe in certain elements of the government paying for themselves.

Dale Moran

I've voiced that opinion, but I don't think that the taxpayers should be burdened with a huge cost if in fact that's what it is to build it downtown.

Gene Shull

Although this procedural change comes after many have already filed their tax returns, about 60 percent of taxpayers still have yet to file. We wanted to do what we could, as soon as it was possible, to make the process easier for those still working on their taxes.

David Stell

Our driving force is to do an extremely high-quality job for the lowest possible price. Ultimately, that saves our taxpayers money.

Jim Raper

That's money the school district doesn't have to pay and the taxpayers don't have to pay it.

Bill Branch

This comprehensive review will build upon the changes I've already undertaken to make city government more effective and efficient, ... It will also enable us to be even better stewards of the taxpayer's money.

John Peyton

We are in essence, through an American taxpayers' loan, subsidizing the Chinese to take more of our technology.

Tom Coburn

There is, however, one excellent advantage for taxpayers: predictability, ... There is only one up-front contribution, which is a match with the employee contribution, and no fluctuations.

Pete Sepp

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations. The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Dennis Gallagher

You can't write checks now and ask questions later. . . . This isn't Monopoly money but real money that taxpayers paid to the government, and they deserve accountability.

Will Adams

This is good news for taxpayers and the states. We hope the Supreme Court will bring some clarity to this area of the law and affirm the principle that states are free to develop their own business climates, so long as they do not discriminate against out-of-state taxpayers.

Chris Atkins

One in four Torrington taxpayers will see their taxes go up if the Congress does not act. This bill will help small businesses and manufacturers grow.

Mayor Ryan Bingham

It's worse than I thought going in. The state of Colorado has a moral, if not legal, obligation to bail this thing out, and this problem is not going to fix itself. (PERA) is absolutely in denial over the future burden they're building in for future taxpayers.

Dick Lamm

We as taxpayers are already paying for the school building projects, improvements to the Northfield Fire House and will be paying for the new town hall in the future.

Betsy Glassman

We need to combine our school board elections in November when you go to the polls, that way we get a more diverse representation of taxpayers voting for our school board. We need a school board in there who wants what the taxpayers want.

Patricia Harless

Any discontent that might be there is part of the report, ... I want to know if taxpayers are getting the biggest bang for buck.

Richard Mccann

Free File makes it easy to file online and get the benefits of e-filing. Taxpayers should review the Free File offerings and see which one works best for them.

Sue Hales

This means that in future the NHS will be able to map populations with these debilitating conditions with pinpoint accuracy. As the database builds up it will allow us to focus resources and plan services appropriately to help us tackle health inequalities. That means good news for NHS patients and good value for money for taxpayers.

Lord Warner

Rather than using the power of the federal government to negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry and reduce costs for recipients and taxpayers, we have been given an incredibly confusing concoction of options which primarily benefit the industry itself.

Cedrick Wilson

They insist on having a public relations extravaganza, probably at some cost to the taxpayers . . . to rehash a bunch of old promises (and) make a few new ones.

John Tory

For the first time, more than half of all taxpayers filed electronically.

Mark Evans

The format was not that critical, because we realize the freeholders were not bound by mandate to act on a petition of this nature anyway. We simply wanted to drive home the idea that the voting taxpayers of Middlesex County want a choice of how their money is spent when it comes to an extravagance like a baseball stadium.

Andrew Tidd

They don't care. It's not their money they'll be spending. It's taxpayers' money.

Al Jett

Congress was more concerned about constituents waking up in the morning sometime in 2009 and finding out that their televisions didn't work, and they couldn't get the sports show that they wanted. They were more concerned about that than they were about reducing the deficit or keeping taxes low or saving billions of dollars for the taxpayers.

James Gattuso

When they did that, they disenfranchised all of the people who don't live on the lake. That lake is the taxpayers' and it has to be open to everybody.

Bob Bello

However, two-party exchanges are rare, because, in the typical 1031 transaction, the seller of the replacement property isn't the buyer of the taxpayer's exchange property.

Glen Robertson

The taxpayers shouldn't be paying money for experts until the time comes when those experts are needed and they're not needed now.

Robert Horan

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Charles E. Grassley

The proposed shift in software will be paid for by the taxpayers, businesses, and regular citizens of Massachusetts.

Tom Schatz

We'll all be watching the vote. It's a very important vote. Hopefully, the decision will be made in the best interest of taxpayers.

Beverly Dix

The Legislature will not waste taxpayers' money and come back to town to do something this board has already done.

Howard Lee

To use taxpayers' money to send -- whether it's in the community or outside the community -- to organizations without getting a clear and direct taxpayer benefit, a public benefit, is wrong.

Harvey Bennett

While it all sounds good, what are the real specifics and where is the money coming from? And the fundamental question is why does someone with such extraordinary wealth look for the taxpayers of the state to subsidize his ventures?

Robert Orr

If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, that would amount to every family in the country paying about $2,500. The last thing we need to do would be to saddle taxpayers with a tax increase.

Jeff Flake

They are focusing on taxpayers making $100,000. They want to get a return on those returns.

Jeffrey Kelson

We want a timeout. What's happening is state tax administrators have, by their own interpretation, issued tax advisories to taxpayers who have inquired whether they should collect taxes through the Internet.

Carol Cayo

They should work. They should become taxpayers.

Bob Pidgeon

The bottom line is, ... we're spending too much money on local government and not enough on our taxpayers.

Robert Waters

We made sure to check finances to see if there are enough licenses in place to support the position. We feel good about this. The position will be fully funded through the revenues from the program; it shouldn't cost taxpayers anything.

Health Officer Hilde Perala

I wanted to be sure that Sun Prairie heads in the right direction and does what's right for the children in the community, yet protecting the taxpayers.

John Whalen

The taxpayers of the city of New London are thereby subsidizing, through their tax dollars, the homeowners' collection of rents.

Mayor Beth Sabilia

The taxpayers can have confidence that they're getting a good return on their investment. We think we've had a lot of success.

Jack Lavin

I don?t think the taxpayers in the Pottsgroves want to pay teachers to shred papers when so much depends on the district?s performance on things like the PSSA tests and No Child Left Behind.

Kathy Baker

Sadly for the Australian people, 10 years of the highest taxing government in our history has given all of those taxpayers a much bigger hangover.

Wayne Swan

We just keep adding insult to injury, in terms of the cost we're putting on taxpayers.

Matthew J. Brouillette

Russell is a highly respected and seasoned investment leader with a strong reputation for investment vision and innovation. He brings a wealth of investment management experience that will help us achieve our investment goals for our 1.4 million public employees, our employers and California taxpayers.

Rob Feckner

When taxes come in, we're going to have another surplus of money. I don't know if we are doing right by the taxpayers. I don't understand what happened here on Thursday night.

Councilman Charles Matthews

Our concern is whether this is the best move for the taxpayers' dollars. That property is prime. Even though Simpson is paying (more than) $60,000 per acre, they're getting a heck of a deal.

John Philbrook

Mason City Schools is in violation of the law for using taxpayers' money to oppose or support any bond issue or levy.

John Meyer

Proposition 36 is tremendously successful at saving lives, at saving money, at keeping families together and at turning people into taxpayers instead of tax users. It is not a silver bullet. But nothing better has been proposed by anyone.

Glenn Backes

It's unfortunate, but we don't have any choice. We had a case here where an experienced detective made a mistake and the city and its taxpayers have to pay for it.

Councilman Dennis Zine

There must be ways to cut legislative staff in order to accomplish reductions in the cost of the Legislature. Pennsylvania taxpayers should demand that.

Gene Stilp

It's real, it's happening, it's painful, it's uncomfortable, it's not fair, and we're talking about human lives here. ... We're not asking for anything public other than permanent residency. Why this legal battle against these taxpayers?

Jose Lagos

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Robert James

We caved. We don't want to spend a bunch of taxpayers' money trying to defend this.

Mike Tiede

Sometimes we feel like we're the most audited agency in the state, but perhaps for good reason because we are the largest consumer of tax resources. If we're going to ask the Legislature to make greater investments in educational improvements, then taxpayers need to be assured that the dollars are well used.

Walt Rulffes

We need to build a treatment system based on proven, cost-effective practices and the goal of recovery. That's what people with serious mental illnesses deserve. It's what taxpayers deserve.

Phyllis Arends

Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of dollars to the American taxpayers.

Sheila Jackson Lee

We as taxpayers are into the bottom line. We want to know if it's going to cost us out of our own pockets. We have to be concerned with the assessment rates. The rate is where the money comes from.

Harold Henderson

If this is the budget that comes to me, I'll look at what I can do with use of the partial veto. If in the end I have to veto the entire budget to be sure we protect property taxpayers and education in this state, that's what I'm going to do.

Democratic Govjim Doyle