mass noun, often as modifierA political policy of increasing taxes in order to fund an increase in government spending.
增税增支（一种通过增加税收来提高政府开支的政策）
an old-fashioned, left-of-centre tax-and-spend party
一个守旧、中间偏左、采取增税增支政策的政党。
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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.