People are going to jail who are not harming anybody. The city is potentially clogging up local courts and jails with no reason to believe it will accomplish anything but waste tax dollars.
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Related When people make a gift to us or pay us their tuition, or when tax dollars are appropriated to us, t... LEONARD SANDRIDGE There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by t... HUBERT H. HUMPHREY We have a responsibility to do this. How are we going to pay for it? By tax dollars. On a tax dollar... ROD RUDDOCK People who are out to find fault seldom find anything else. It is a waste of time, no matter how muc... JAMES DYE What is happening here is that your state and local tax dollars are being used to hire a lobbyist as... ED FRANK There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not suppo... HUBERT H. HUMPHREY I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who do... MALCOLM X The city has a reasonable plan to pay ... and we have no reason to believe it will not be executed, BARRY COOPER Discrimination is on its face wrong. Funding it with state tax dollars is unacceptable. We feel that... CHRISTINA GILGOR Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. WARREN BENNIS Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. WARREN G. BENNIS Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not se... RALPH NADER I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody wh... MALCOLM X We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of en... MA JUN It is worrying that companies are applying for licences that cannot possibly be granted. It will pot... ERIC ROBERTS If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars.... SCOTT HODGE The gas exploration companies pay a very high wage. People who are underemployed today will change j... BUCK LAYNE You will meet people in life who will just dislike you for no reason, not because there is anything ... KEYSHA JADE Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get you... ALEX KNOTT It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and wa... CHARLES SORENSON There's no reason in my opinion not to give bigger doses. The harm is minimal if anything, and the b... DAVID METZ People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The polit... ELTON JOHN Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. DAVID BRINKLEY If this market sustains -- and there is a pretty good chance it will not only sustain, but it may ev... BRUCE HUFFAKER Our tax policy with regards to energy is so far way from Mr. Smith's teachings that we probably will... KARR INGHAM People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what ... GEORGE MILLER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to ele... DICK MORRIS No tax dollars are used for these services. DAN CRAWFORD It will not be tax dollars. BETH RICHARDSON Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, m... PAUL DONOVAN It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strateg... RUSS CARNAHAN Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reas... HELEN GARNER Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming ... PAUL RODRIGUEZ I've talked to experts in the field, people that are experts in design of jails, experts in construc... JOEL BAKER We believe Ms. Rodriguez violated the terms of her probation. She now potentially faces up to 18 mon... FRANK MATELJAN We believe that local people know their local customers. People in Chicago are going to make the dec... JEFF NODDLE The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city polit... GROVER NORQUIST In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. POLLY TOYNBEE You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're... WAYNE DYER I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. JOHN F. KENNEDY Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i... MILTON FRIEDMAN The only thing they want to accomplish is more building. They need to decide if they are helping or ... JANE SMITH This is not uncharted territory. As much as we dislike it, we are not as alarmed. You are not going ... GREGG LASKOSKI Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY There's virtually no relationship between the number of children born with potentially elevated leve... JEFF HOLMSTEAD We would like it to be in Columbia City. It's not a firm and final decision, and will depend on tax ... DICK TEETS As the state's chief fiscal officer, I am committed to making sure tax dollars are spent wisely and ... CAROLE STRAYHORN As the state's chief fiscal officer, I am committed to making sure tax dollars are spent wisely and ... CAROLE KEETON STRAYHORN Mentally retarded street youth are seen as a scourge to society. They are routinely rounded up and l... CHRISTOPHER NUGENT It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ... CAREW PAPRITZ In reviewing our tax structure, our lodging tax had not been addressed in a number of years. The rec... HOWARD SHELL If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are conce... JOHN HARRISON I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely w... CORITA KENT On a local level we certainly will look at the opportunity to weigh in on this one. It is no surpris... DUANE WALLACE Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than peo... HOBART BROWN Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million
dollars are no happier than peo... HOBART BROWN It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position t... F. M. YOUNG The more formal structure gives the city a level of confidence-a way to professionally channel tax d... ANGELA RAE The taxpayers of the city of New London are thereby subsidizing, through their tax dollars, the home... MAYOR BETH SABILIA All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dolla... HRISHIKESH AGNIHOTRI I hope justice will be preserved. I have no problem spending my tax dollars to let this man sit in j... ELLONIA BICKERS A 'no' vote will potentially save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. RALPH NADER Some people out in the community have requested this meeting to find out where the tax money is goin... IVAN CANEVELLO We've been around for 25 years, but people are getting complacent again. Drunk driving deaths are go... CHRISTINE JACOBS The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me,... RANDY FALCO We all have a duty to define who we are SOTONYE ANGA Money for schools is given through tax money. Every year there is a plan of what revenue is expected... RICHARD HARTLEY That's 69 guys who are going to jail someday and don't even know it yet. ED SKYLER People see the dollar amount we are asking for, and they tend to stop there because it is such an as... DAVE OBRZUT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA However, there is no doubt that there will be some significant impacts and residents need to be prep... DAN NORRIS Federal and provincial programs that benefit the city of Ottawa are financed by hard working, tax pa... SEAN MCKENNY Satellite is not going to hurt terrestrial radio. People are still going to want their local traffic... ERIC SEIGEL Discrimination is on its face wrong. Funding it with state tax dollars is unacceptable. Our tax doll... CHRISTINA GILGOR I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer th... WILLIAM FAULKNER There have been no CIA jails in Poland and there are no CIA jails or prisoners. ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments a... ZACK DE LA ROCHA I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the si... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH The city isn't going to be the scapegoat for why this program went away. The local option sales tax ... DALE SWANSON My tax dollars are being used in a way that I disapprove of. I think a majority of Americans would d... LIZ VIERING This whole scheme that the governor's coming up with is going to make everybody pay more taxes we're... DAN CURTIS Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau... BUDDHA Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau... Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau... GAUTAMA BUDDHA At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition... BILLY SUNDAY We are going to vigorously attack the law in courts, ... Congress has no power to retroactively depr... DENNIS HENIGAN When I am finished college, I am moving to another state where tax dollars are well spent, ... In th... ELIZABETH DAVIS The only reason he is in jail now is because he didn't show up for court. I feel better that he's be... FATHER TOM BONNETT Your jail is one of the most crowded jails I've been in, STEVE CARTER It served no purpose to tie up our people in the courts, GLENN MORRIS Who are you?” I asked. “Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. ... NICO J. GENES Search and find out what you are meant to do in this life, when you find it, do it SOTONYE ANGA We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constit... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Buildings for government are always touchy. People are very mindful of how we spend are tax dollars. BETSY WILLIAMS That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota... CHUCK BERRY There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actuall... SAMANTHA BEE
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