Every one of you playing dumb is intellectually offensive.
The idea "It's not the government's money it's the taxpayers' money" (in whatever form) invites idiocy.
As the most general principle that government should have a duty to use taxpayers' money wisely, okay. But it's often employed in bone-headed or ill-considered arguments, or even to simply argue government should reduce taxes, often irrespective of any other principles about government action.
Anyone can say that they earned that money from their labour and the government took it, but their ability to earn is dependent on a whole host of protections, facilities and processes (military, law, public infrastructure) provided the government. As a parallel, so too do corporations requisition a proportion of the value that their workers create in return for facilitating work. I wonder how many people roll this shit out against governments, but not business?