With all due respect that is absurd, tax payers are paying my taxes? I work for a living don't forget that. It is matter of perception, name me a job that is not dependant on the patronage of another. I depend on taxes for my salary, the car salesman depends on me to buy a car to pay his taxes, the plumber depends on me to call for my broken pipe so he can buy a truck. All salaries depend on someone else, all of them. 
 As to the police union, yes they generate revenue and that is why governments love them, I can't argue with that.