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taxpayer

/ˈtækˌspeɪɚ/

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What does taxpayer mean?

noun

  1. A person who is subject to, liable for, or pays tax.

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When a black man is the largest taxpayer in his community his white neighbor will not object very long to his voting, and having that vote honestly counted.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
The Supreme Court, which is empowered to enforce the execution of this law of the Union, exerts its influence not upon a refractory State, but upon the private taxpayer; and, like the judicial power of other nations, it is opposed to the person of an individual.
Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America — Volume 1Translated by Henry ReeveProject Gutenberg ebook #815
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This is the penalty that the man of intellectual curiosity and vanity pays for his violation of the divine edict that what has been revealed from Sinai shall suffice for him, and for his resistance to the natural process which seeks to reduce him to the respectable level of a patriot and taxpayer.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270