By 2010, almost 30 million taxpayers will pay the tax.

Local taxpayers must pay more than $12 million for the next 20 years.

Some taxpayers would actually pay more if the cut was put into effect.

If the system works right, taxpayers pay a fair share.

And again, they said, taxpayers would pay most of it.

The problem so far is that taxpayers paid when something went wrong.

"We couldn't get the taxpayers to pay for it any earlier."

"It's an issue of how much the taxpayers should pay for the piece."

Taxpayers will be paying this back over the coming years.

The taxpayer paid more than half the cost of keeping up the home for the tax year.