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Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs