John McCain actually said...

"Why should the taxpayers not know? Why should the average citizen not know what the cost of a--whatever--how many tens of billions of dollars--$80 billion to $100 billion program?"

"I think that, just as we in the military provide incentive pay for hardship positions, I hope that you would look at that."

"Frankly, I have never heard of this before, that they should not know how much of their dollars that they pay in taxes are being spent because somebody might connect the dots?"

"You are not serving the Nation or the taxpayers if they do not know how much of their taxpayer dollars are being spent."