Meaning of Tax-payer | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer⟳ of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.”

“On the closing night of the session, on that carnival night of confused, headlong, blinded, bedlamite legislation, which costs the tax-payer so dear, Mr. Hollowbread went to bed from his protracted vigils and labors with aching loins and a dizzy sconce.”

“In other words the hard-earned money of tax-payers like⟳ you and me who sweat⟳ it out 365 days a year not only to keep⟳ our body and soul together but also to keep⟳ our sciencemen in form⟳.”

“‘I'm just not interested in the whole class crap that seems to needle you and all the tax-payers,’ the teenager tells some ‘pre-historic monster’ of an adult, with a ‘cool’ snobbishness which MacInnes's companion on many of his Notting Hill sorties, the late Professor Richard Wollheim, compared to the ‘Sang Froid’ of Baudelaire's Dandy as he cruised through Fin-de-Siecle Paris with a similar sensibility, or lack of it.”

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