Tax-payer

Some of the increase in the number of children being home-schooled has been a result of curriculum cutbacks at tax-payer funded public schools.

Source: tatoeba (11749409)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary