tax-eaters

Unless these are mercenaries who hire out th individuals, ultimately they are still tax-eaters.

Matthew Yglesias » Public Sector Pay 2010

If low-skill and high-age are correlated, then part of what the analysis is picking up is the fact that old folks are tax-eaters.

Tax-eaters, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Cities are full of tax-eaters welfare recipients, welfare state workers and suburbs are full of tax-payers.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Commute: 1.9 Miles 2009

The “tax-eaters” are the political class — the state and state-subsidized industries — that are dependent on the private economy.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Problems with Libertarian Theories of Class Conflict: 2007

Because the “tax-eaters” eat in to capital and hamper the private economy they harm everyone.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Problems with Libertarian Theories of Class Conflict: 2007

Many tax-eaters mistakenly believe themselves to be taxpayers — recipients of corporate welfare would probably wrongly self-identify as “taxpayers,” for example.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Problems with Libertarian Theories of Class Conflict: 2007

The “tax-eaters” are dependent on the producers because the state is dependent on the private economy.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Problems with Libertarian Theories of Class Conflict: 2007

Outside a narrow band at top and bottom I think it is difficult to assign most people status as tax-eaters or tax-payers.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Problems with Libertarian Theories of Class Conflict: 2007

Outside a narrow band at top and bottom I think it is difficult to assign most people status as tax-eaters or tax-payers.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Problems with Libertarian Theories of Class Conflict: 2007

I want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be tax-payers instead of tax-eaters.

We Shall Overcome 1965