> That's simply not true

I'm not sure I understand your comment tbh. Where does the money come from, if not from EU taxpayers?

> the EU subsidy budget is dwarfed by each country's national budget.

My comment had nothing to do with that.

The page you linked has a question "How is the budget funded", which lists the revenues:

> Another difference between the EU budget and national budgets is that the EU lacks direct taxation power to finance its budget and instead relies on revenues called “own resources”.

> These revenues are:

> - Custom duties on imports into the EU

> - A small part of the VAT collected by each EU country

> - A contribution based on the amount of non-recycled plastic waste in each EU country

> - National contribution from each EU country based on its gross national income (GNI). All member states contribute according to their share in the combined GNI of EU countries. This is the largest share of the own resources.

I'd say all of that comes from the EU taxpayers.