Stephen Harper Quotes

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.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Tell Congress to go home and make an honest living instead of riding on the backs of the taxpayers.

If women are given equal pay for Civil Service jobs, maybe other employers will do the same.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women are given equal pay for Civil Service jobs, maybe other employers will do the same.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

There's no such thing as a good tax.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.

On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.