It's an indirect transfer from the taxpayer to Lockheed Martin".
Usually the criticism is that the number leaves out all kinds of costs, both direct (like security, sanitation and transportation, typically paid for by taxpayers) and indirect (such as what kinds of economic activity and tourism did not happen because the area was snarled with football traffic).
By granting tax-exempt status to the groups and their donations, the US taxpayer becomes an indirect subsidiser of the occupation.
As a taxpayer, I resent the indirect support I am forced to contribute toward the political agendas of religious organizations like the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and other denominations that the Aug. 6 article mentions.
"It's all very well for the government to say, 'Look, it's Nauru's problem' – we are paying taxpayers' money, we have indirect responsibility, we cannot abdicate a responsibility for vulnerable people, women and children and men in these circumstances.
For example in the fast food industry alone research by the University of Illinois and UC Berkeley documents that taxpayers pay about $243 billion each year in indirect subsidies to the fast food industry because they pay wages so low that taxpayers must put up $243 billion to pay for public benefits for their workers.
Some residents accused the council of endorsing corporate welfare for outside organizations, saying that any costs — be them direct or indirect — should be paid for by the outside groups so taxpayers don't have to.
Every year, taxpayers spend between eight and 21 billion dollars on indirect costs of youth incarceration, like future lost wages, lost educational opportunities and reliance on public assistance.
And taxpayers can end up paying for the cuts in more indirect ways.
The indirect costs of the rescue efforts, including subsidies provided to the recipients by taxpayers, loom large.
