tax-and-spend
tax-and-spend
Characterized by excessive spending and government expansion funded by excessive taxation. Used before a noun. The average working class citizen is sick of the tax-and-spend policies of this administration. The candidate is running her campaign as an attack against a tax-and-spend government that she claims is suffocating the country.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
tax-and-spend
spending freely and taxing heavily. (Referring to a legislative body that repeatedly passes expensive new laws and keeps raising taxes to pay for the cost. Fixed order.) I hope that people do not elect another tax-and-spend Congress this time. The only thing worse than a tax-and-spend legislature is one that spends and runs up a worsening deficit.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- heavily
- twice over
- up the yin-yang
- rush
- by half
- boast of (someone or something)
- toujours perdrix
- a heavy hand
- a sight too good, too much, etc.