It can't be the American people, because they are the ones who would be getting their money back under a tax cut. So I can only assume that he is referring to politicians and bureaucrats. It is easy to say that Jeffords was never really a Republican to begin with. It is easy to dismiss, as the exclusive product of the Left, his presumption that the government's needs take precedence over its citizens' rights. But Jeffords and the other moderates do belong in the party, because they express a basic ideological contradiction within the Republican approach.
Republicans like to employ the rhetoric of liberty and individual rights.
And they embrace this philosophy heartily when it comes to controls, for example, on sex and violence in Hollywood movies. One is a vision of liberty, the other a vision of servitude.