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单词 tax and spend
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Definition of tax and spend in English:

tax and spend

noun
  • mass noun, often as modifier A political policy of increasing taxes in order to fund an increase in government spending.

    an old-fashioned, left-of-centre tax-and-spend party
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He goes out of his way to deny that he would follow Labour's tax-and-spend policies and holds out the prospect of possible tax cuts.
    • If the Democrats are the party of "tax and spend," the Republicans are the party of "borrow and spend."
    • This group are great tax avoiders and even evaders but they are not the key people in the contemporary politics of tax and spend.
    • This rhetoric disguises the very corrosive effect that tax-and-spend, together with ever increasing regulation, is having on the economy.
    • Ireland took an aggressive approach to getting its economy going in the early 1990s by slashing corporate tax rates, much to the consternation of Europe's tax-and-spend bureaucrats.
    • Mindful of avoiding the Massachusetts tax-and-spend liberal label, Senator Kerry has shied away from promoting more expensive social programs.
    • In addition, the "neoconservatives" who rail against tax-and-spend liberals should only look in the mirror to see themselves in the same light.
    • Tragically, the Minister of Finance disagrees with his own Treasury advisers and prefers to go on taxing and spending.
    • This month's questioning on the big tax-and-spend decisions by the mayor marked a new low in evasiveness, as even Tory members privately acknowledged.
    • But Democrats may be more concerned about the old tax and spend label.
    • There will be constant attacks on Democrats as "tax-and-spend" liberals.
    • Californians from across the political spectrum have had enough of tax-and-spend business as usual.
    • By and large, I think the public resigns itself to the fact that the Government is a tax-and-spend Government.
    • Our first-hand experience should lead us all to a simple conclusion: tax-and-spend works.
    • Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
    • The businessman mayor's archaic tax-and-spend liberalism will cost a fragile New York many thousands of jobs and make its recovery uncertain.
    • This would not be accomplished through a return to what was derided as old-style "tax and spend" policies.
    • The federal, state, and many local governments have the authority to tax and spend.
    • It takes a lot of money, but we can't go back to tax and spend.
    • So we have two parties, the tax and spend party and then the spending party.
 
 
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