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Meaning taxpayer meaning
What does taxpayer mean?
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That's just a waste of taxpayer money.
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They'd be killing an innocent taxpayer.
Now you're behaving like a taxpayer.
The taxpayers. I'm a taxpayer.
Why, you are, Mr. Rash. a right thinking taxpayer, you'd want to stop smuggling.
Who's a taxpayer? Crooks don't pay taxes.
Not only have many millions' worth of tax receipts and currency and checks gone up in flames, but, far more tragically, the tax information files of virtually every taxpayer in this nation have been destroyed.
I'm sure the overburdened British taxpayer will be fascinated to know will how the Special Ordnance Section disburses its funds.
If a taxpayer has to go to the other side of town, a police officer is obliged to give her a lift.
I'm a taxpayer, you damn savage.
It's at cost to the taxpayer, and I cannot pretend to be pleased that you're marrying in a registry office.
The consensus is that I'm spending too much of the taxpayer's money tracking down UFOs. But that's your job, sir.
The party shares the concern of the american taxpayer, the working man.
I'm sorry. But is that how you scientists spend the taxpayer's money?
Or maybe it's all just a wild story, in which case we're all having a little vacation at the taxpayer's expense.
And to think that the law says that eight useless guys like you have to be put in a nice comfortable prison and fed at the taxpayer's expense.
Some crank is having fun with the taxpayer's money.
I DON'T EVEN CARE THAT YOU CRACKED UP THE SHIP AND I'M A TAXPAYER.
I'm a decent taxpayer, and no dirty, rotten.
A right thinking taxpayer, you'd want to stop smuggling.
Who's a taxpayer?
Taxpayer, good Republican.
Mr Frank Wallingham, who is an acquaintance, a taxpayer, and a good Republican.
I am a taxpayer and a good Republican, which means I am entitled to army escort.
What about my rights as a taxpayer and a good Republican?
I'm a taxpayer and a good Republican!
You know what that represents in dollars to the American taxpayer? But Colonel Hogan.
I am not a taxpayer. I do not pay any taxes. and do not intend to pay!
With taxpayer money, has he uncovered valuable new evidence?
These men can learn the value of an honest day's labor and provide a service to the community at a bare minimum of expense to Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Taxpayer.
He's still here, living very well at the expense of the American taxpayer.
This is not England, or the Royal Shakespeare Taxpayer-Pick-Up-The-Tab Health Care System.
It's a waste of taxpayer money to have it signed and photocopied to say nothing of enforced.
And cash his stock, relieving the taxpayer of the burden.
I' m asking as a taxpayer.
Yet Sesame Street is subsidized by taxpayer dollars.
He has no Social Security number, taxpayer I.D. or last name.
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Financial systems are bloated by implicit taxpayer guarantees, which allow banks, particularly large ones, to borrow money at interest rates that do not fully reflect the risks they take in search of outsized profits.
Why are these antitrust tools not used against today's megabanks, which have become so powerful that they can sway legislation and regulation massively in their favor, while also receiving generous taxpayer-financed bailouts as needed?
But the scheme was criticized for allowing employers to pay below-subsistence wages, because the taxpayer would make up the difference.
In other words, with or without children, the French citizen's annual tax payment would be smaller than that of the Italian taxpayer with no additional wealth.
Bush's Republicans favor increasing disposable family income (by reducing taxes) and more often leaving to the market, the production of goods and services now publicly provided and paid for by the taxpayer, rather than the user.
If the cost is borne by the taxpayer, it is resented.
In bad times, it is national taxpayers who pay for any financial-sector trouble, because there is no pan-European taxpayer or plausible burden-sharing models.
Taxpayer bailouts, on the other hand, are seldom smooth and inevitably compromise central bank independence.
It is hard enough to collect taxes, so how can societies possibly go back to a world where the tax office has to run after the taxpayer?
The status quo allows banks instead to leverage taxpayer assistance by holding razor-thin equity margins, relying on debt to a far greater extent than typical large non-financial firms do.
Indeed, it appears that the typical northern European taxpayer supports the typical stakeholder in northern European banks that are over-exposed to southern European debtors.
Of course, national governments would have had to use taxpayer funds to recapitalize northern European banks - especially in France and Germany - that lent too much to the periphery.
As a taxpayer, I would rather pay to foster other people's good behavior than pay more for the consequences of their bad behavior.
Accusations that Switzerland is a tax haven usually come from countries that have a low level of taxpayer honesty.
A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.
Such an overall cap would allow each taxpayer to retain all of his existing deductions and exclusions but would limit the amount by which he could reduce his tax liability in this way.
So far, the strategy of maintaining banking systems on feeding tubes of taxpayer-guaranteed short-term credit has made sense.
In other words, they are putting taxpayer money where commercial companies fear to tread.
Aside from costing billions of taxpayer dollars, Paulson's plan violates the fundamental capitalist principle that whoever reaps the gains also bears the losses.
Do we want to live in a system where profits are private, but losses are socialized, where taxpayer money is used to prop up failed firms?
Each year in Norway, the government publishes the income and wealth of almost every taxpayer.
The fact that an even larger catastrophe would have resulted had governments not been willing to draw on taxpayer funds to bail out the banks was an additional blow to those who have told us to trust the unregulated market.
This plan would allow us to bail out good banks and allow bad banks to fail - without costing the taxpayer a penny.
The Swiss state, by contrast, has an excellent relationship with its taxpayers, and there is a correspondingly high level of taxpayer honesty.