And she would have reminded voters that several public-sector unions, whose taxpayer-funded largesse towards their pensioners is one of California's biggest economic problems, are putting their money behind Mr Brown.
If winding up or bailing out a big cross-border bank, whose taxpayers should be called upon to save it if most of its business is abroad?
Moreover, several of the museum's trustees resigned in protest of the Pérez renaming, calling it an ego-driven insult to Miami, whose taxpayers had already contributed $100 million to the new building.
But while being in Westchester is valuable to the youths and their families, the real estate they occupy is valuable to the surrounding suburbs, whose taxpayers view their young guests with increasing uneasiness.
But not, surely, if there is a legacy as bitter as those that came to Montreal, whose taxpayers still bemoan the cost, poor, maxed-out Athens and Atlanta, whose Games were described by the not notably unpatriotic Sports Illustrated magazine as no more than a shoddy bazaar.
It had taken years of negotiation for the State Office of Court Administration, which was demanding that the courthouse be brought up to date, and the county, whose taxpayers were required to pay for the updating, to agree on a $140 million renovation and expansion plan.
A spokeswoman for Mrs Grant, whose taxpayer-funded flat is on the south bank of the Thames, close to the MI6 building, said she had acted within both the sprit and the letter of the rules.
Radislav Nakov and Vladimir Bashliyisk have regularly taken part in such marches but when I ask the young doctors if they do not have a bad conscience about leaving the country whose taxpayers have just funded five years of their medical training, they are adamant.
There are only four other states whose taxpayers have a higher tax burden than we do: Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Maryland.
These figures indicate a long-term and increasing, not decreasing role for donors whose taxpayers also have a stake in the price of ARVs.
"They make a risk calculation," said Nina E. Olson, the national taxpayer advocate, whose office helps taxpayers resolve their problems with the I.R.S. "If the risk of me being discovered is low, the penalty is modest and the benefit is great, then I am willing to accept that risk".
