A surprising range of people are pressing for measures aimed at ordinary taxpayers.

Lincoln knew government must be accountable to taxpayers, and that ordinary taxpayers can help.

"Parliament and the public have legitimate concerns that large companies are being treated more favourably than ordinary taxpayers. "

Asking ordinary taxpayers to cover the costs of a financial debacle they neither caused nor benefited from was bad enough.

Yet another "corporate entitlement program" which ordinary taxpayers pay for.

To ordinary taxpayers, the salaries and raises may look high.

The ordinary taxpayer has neither caused nor benefited from this madness.

That would cost ordinary taxpayers another £4.8bn.

Then, and again with his veto of the tax bill this year, the President seemed more concerned with the affluent than with ordinary taxpayers.

Mr President, there are two overriding themes in this place: first, concern with the growing gulf between the political elite and the ordinary taxpayers.