Citations:taxaphobic

English citations of taxaphobic

Adjective: "(informal) fearing or opposing taxes"

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• 1992, George F. Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990, Free Press (1992), →ISBN, page 173:

  Today Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, from Illinois, has the challenging task of selling a taxaphobic nation on the rationality of spending much more on infrastructure.

• 1998, Karen Bojar, "Volunteering and Women's Lives: A Lens for Exploring Conflicts in Contemporary Feminist Thoughts, Historical Importance and Socioeconomic Value of Women's Contributions as Volunteers", in Women's Studies in Transition: The Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity (ed. Kate Conway-Turner), Associated University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 49:

  In our taxaphobic society, the only way to advance redistributionist policies and to improve the lives of poor people may be through an emphasis on children, with women who are themselves devoted mothers leading the charge.

• 2007, Robert Shrum, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner, Simon & Schuster (2007), →ISBN, page 188:

  […] and then we could go after them, especially Dukakis, on tax increases, the issue where he was most vulnerable in taxaphobic New Hampshire.

• 2009, A. Semed Atick, Oh America!: Through The Eyes of an Immigrant, Xlibris (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  The complicated U.S. taxation systems, the bureaucratic madness of the April 15th deadline, drive honest taxpayers insane and most have become taxaphobic.

• 2011, Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, Thomas Dunne Books (2011), →ISBN, page 29:

  Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic people who believed in severely limited government.