In fact, the I.R.S. already does this as a way of forcing taxpayers to compromise.

Forcing American taxpayers to pay Loewen for its losses, she said, would erode the aim of American courts to punish and deter wrongdoing.

"The issue becomes one of forcing taxpayers to fund issues with which they disagree," said Marshall Wittman, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

It forces taxpayers with substantial deductions to compute their tax bill twice.

In effect, the state is shifting costs to the local level and forcing taxpayers to decide whether they want to pay for the programs.

By resigning immediately after the 1992 general elections, Keene forced taxpayers to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an otherwise unnecessary special election.

One per cent would force taxpayers to find an extra £21 billion in debt interest payments, much of it going to our foreign creditors.

Forcing taxpayers to fund these excessive salaries and bonuses just adds insult to injury," Chairman Bachus added.

How much longer are we going to force European taxpayers, workers and pensioners to pay debts that have been generated by the private bank sector which is attacking us?

Comparable Worth is an attempt to force employers, taxpayers, and consumers to pay women as though they had not made those career choices.