Michael Schur Quotes

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them, so they're a necessary evil

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

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

Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

The American people want more from government than they are willing to pay for in taxes.

I think tax is tough in this country. Every time I sign a cheque to pay tax, it drives me crazy. But at the same time, I'm happy to live here. I want to have a good medical system, good education, good roads, so it's a Catch 22. I hate it, but it's a necessary evil.

People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

The person to protect is the American taxpayer. We deserve to be protected, not Lockheed.

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.