"But our taxpayers can no longer afford these overly generous benefits."

What killed the program was their assertion that the taxpayers could no longer afford it.

But the taxpayers and our children cannot afford for the Legislature to delay this issue beyond next year.

The taxpayers could afford to pay those workers full salary for three years.

But others question whether the state should pay people to live in places that most taxpayers cannot afford.

No knock on the cops, but taxpayers simply cannot afford this.

There are limits to what city taxpayers can afford.

Where is the money to help the British taxpayer afford all this?

Those are costs that neither national governments nor taxpayers can currently afford.

It is a matter of not spending more than we taxpayers can afford.