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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

We have a responsibility to be responsible stewards of tax dollars.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

I pay my taxes.