I can't see what's pejorative about taxpayer money. That's whom it comes from.
>There's no such thing as "public" money; it always comes from private pockets and ends up in (different) private pockets.
That is just a play on words. Of course individuals are "private"; it's in their capacity as taxpayers (rather than volitional payers) that they collectively constitute the public. "Public" and "private" are terms from economics with established meanings.
>I can't see what's pejorative about taxpayer money. That's whom it comes from.
I don't want to get into a big discussion on this, but this is a good example of the distinction between connotation and denotation (http://classweb.gmu.edu/bhawk/101/semiotics/decon.html).
Don't you mean "seigniorage" money? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage
as opposed to money being collected via taxes.
Isn't seigniorage a type of tax? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage
seigniorage is also referred to as an inflation tax [...] the "inflation tax" is paid by those who hold the existing currency, which results from their holdings of currency becoming devalued through inflation because of the introduction of additional money supply.
Yes, but it's not a tax on the people, it's a tax on dollar holders.