1.   As the city government prepared to deal for the first time with a nonconsensus budget, some officials bemoaned that the breakdown would ultimately hurt taxpayers.

2.   But such transfers to federal agencies hurt taxpayers, who must pay more for schools.

3.   He denounced the bipartisan budget deal as a sellout by congressional Republicans that will hurt taxpayers.

4.   Mitchell added that the bill would hurt taxpayers by forcing the federal government to contract out services to sub-par businesses.

5.   The effect of these policies goes beyond hurting taxpayers and helping farmers.

6.   The taxpayers are hurt by the fraud and the corruptions and are hurt again by having to come up with punitive damages to pay the fraud and corruption.

7.   McCain was up front about the loose strings in his plan, saying that as it is now drafted, some taxpayers might be hurt by the minimum tax.