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Adjective: "(informal, pejorative) having or supporting excessive taxes"

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  • 1993, George F. Will, "The Energy-Tax Doily", The Baltimore Sun, 17 May 1993;
    As the taxaholic Clinton administration struggles to govern this taxaphobic nation, it is provoking protests not quite as stirring as the dean's, but which should be heeded.
  • 1997, House of Commons Debates, Issues 11-25, page 1099:
    We have a taxaholic finance minister waiting for his new hit of 10 billion new tax dollars.
  • 1999, House of Commons Debates, Issues 228-236, page 15210:
    Mr. Speaker, the taxaholic Liberal govemment is sitting on a huge surplus.
  • 2005, Alan S. Ferguson, The Dummy, AuthorHouse (2005), →ISBN, page 299:
    These taxaholic spendocrats see no end to your money.
  • 2012, Ann O'M. Bowman & Richard C. Kearney, State and Local Government: The Essentials, Wadsworth (2012), →ISBN, page 241:
    What protects citizens against "taxaholic" local legislative bodies is the state requirement that local tax hikes must be approved by the voters in a referendum.
  • 2013, "The Irish recovery", The Washington Times, 21 October 2013:
    The Irish government last week thumbed its nose at the taxaholic recommendations of the European Union, and said Dublin would restrain spending while restraining corporate tax rates at the current low levels.

Noun: "(informal, pejorative) a person or government which institutes or supports excessive taxes"

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  • 1990, Newsweek, Volume 115, page 72:
    So if Frank's agenda requires much money, there must be a tax increase, and Frank, a recovering taxaholic from mendicant Massachusetts, says that idea is political poison.
  • 1993, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, page 1472:
    There are many people who have the perception that you are a taxaholic, that you didn't get the message that many people in this country want you to cut spending first, get rid of the bloat in the Federal Government and then talk about tax hikes.
  • 1993, The Hotline, Volume 6, Issues 192-212, page 23:
    Ailes "made it clear he wasn't endorsing" Gov. Jim Florio (D), calling him a "Democratic taxaholic who is Bill Clinton's favorite governor."
  • 2000, House of Commons Debates, Issues 75-84, page 5849:
    The reason Canadians put us here was to voice their concerns and frustrations over the weight of a central government that is a tax and spend fanatic, a taxaholic.
  • 2002, House of Commons Debates, Issues 152-161, page 9696:
    Are we supposed to take him seriously when he says he is going to reduce the air security tax if it takes in too much revenue? The Minister of Finance is a taxaholic.
  • 2004, "'... and I approved this message'", Star Tribune, 23 May 2004:
    If you watch commercial television this month, you likely have seen a Bush-Cheney positive ad, possibly the one touting President Bush's No Child Left Behind education program, or a negative one that attacks Sen. John Kerry as either a flip-flopper, a taxaholic, or as soft on military issues.
  • 2010, Richard W. Rahn, "Taxaholics", The Washington Times, 11 May 2010:
    The majority of taxaholics are particularly addicted to the most destructive taxes, being the taxes on capital.
  • 2011, Peter Dash, Zurabia, iUniverse (2011), →ISBN, page 154:
    Bashard teased them mercilessly and called their governor a “taxaholic.”