This is a multi-part message in MIME format. My view is that this kind of sentiment is a clich that has a definite ideological content that totally misrepresents the situation. The state collects revenue in the form of taxation. This revenue is public money and constitutes in general a deduction from the surplus value of the bourgeoisie. Despite appearances it does not constitute a deduction from wages.
Real wages is, in the context of taxation, the wages after tax deductions.
Consequently when the state reduces income tax it is essentially reducing the amount of surplus value it collects in the form of revenue from the bourgeoisie. A reduction in income tax or indeed any other tax by the state expresses itself as a corresponding increase of surplus value accruing to the capitalist for purposes of capital accumulation etc. All this rhetoric about taxpayers money and the taxpayer being concerned how the state spends its money misleadingly creates the impression that the working class is this powerful taxpayer and that this class is much more empowered under capitalism than it actually is. It also mischaracterize the relationship between workers and the state suggesting that the state in some way is the representative of the workers and their wages in the form of tax. It is an ideology that misrepresents the status of the worker and the character of the relationship between the worker and the state together with the entire meaning of citizenry.