单词 | tax-and-spend |
释义 | tax-and-spendn.adj. Politics (originally U.S.). A. n. A policy, usually associated with the political left, of increasing taxes (esp. income tax) in order to fund an increase in government spending, esp. public spending. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions protection1719 co-operation1817 tariff-reform1859 monetary union1866 border protection1875 rationalization1875 tariffication1892 tariffade1904 inflationism1919 NEP1923 war communism1928 voodoo economics1930 substantivism1931 sterilization1938 deficit spending1941 deficit financing1943 tax-and-spend1956 indexation1960 stop-go1964 incomes policy1965 scala mobile1965 quantitative easing1966 jawboning1969 Nixonomics1969 developmentalism1970 degrowth1971 inflation-proofing1973 NEB1973 dollarization1982 fiscal engineering1982 Rogernomics1985 1956 N. A. Graebner New Isolationism iv. 94 He [sc. Eisenhower]..was committed to what they [sc. the Taftites] termed the discredited foreign policy of ‘tax and spend’. 1975 N.Y. Times 6 Sept. 18/3 Not for nothing do these anachronistic defenders of tax-and-spend, spend-and-tax embrace the jackass as their symbol. 1983 Listener 6 Jan. 4/3 When you have divided the world with Stalin and Roosevelt..it must be hard to settle to the trivia of tax-and-spend. 1998 Prospect Mar. 44/1 There were two critical issues on which we had to transform ourselves—tax-and-spend and macroeconomic stability. B. adj. Designating, relating to, or advocating a policy of tax-and-spend. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions imperial1726 co-operative1821 protectionist1844 inflationist1876 rational1915 deflationist1921 rationalist1942 producer-oriented1946 redistributionist1949 substantivist1956 supply side1957 demand-pull1958 tax-and-spend1960 stop-and-go1961 stop-go1962 go-stop1964 supply-driven1973 demand-side1975 supply side1976 demand-driven1980 1960 W. E. Stone in A. G. Heinsohn Anthol. Conservative Writing in U.S. (1962) xiv. 362 Here is powerful evidence that people get results when they go to work to get action on the ‘Proposed 23rd Amendment’ designed to solve our tax-and-spend problems of government. 1985 W. D. Snider Helms & Hunt Prol. 3 Others viewed him as an unbending right-wing warrior battling the ‘tax and spend’ liberals. 1992 Economist 9 May 58/1 The Democrats' favourite draft is one by Senator Paul Simon (as tax-and-spend a liberal as they come). He would require the government to match revenues with spending. 1998 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. i. 9/1 The goal of the strategy was not to upset the large number of voters in the center who associated Labor objectives with tax-and-spend policies. Derivatives ˌtax-and-ˈspender n. an advocate or practitioner of a policy of tax-and-spend. ΚΠ 1984 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 4 Dec. He told reporters he thought the [Democrat] Party was getting a bum rap from Republicans. ‘They like to talk about us as tax-and-spenders. We haven't been that way in the last eight years.’ 1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 May a10/3 Mr. Andrews's predecessor in his southern New Jersey district was Jim Florio, a tax-and-spender from central casting. But Mr. Andrews..voted for Penny-Kasich spending cuts. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1956 |
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