Citations:taxocrat

English citations of taxocrat

Noun: "(informal, derogatory) a politician or bureaucrat viewed as supporting excessive taxes or spending"

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• 1932, Carpenter, Volumes 52-53, page 94:

  "The taxocrats do not believe that full benefits of the use of labor-displacing or labor-saving machines should go to the owners of the machines," declared a statement sent out by the society.

• 1944, Tax Topics: The National Magazine of Tax Accounting, Volumes 4-5, page 25:

  "What we don't want is government by "taxocrats", continually meddling with the competitive practices that brought us the highest living standards and the capacity to outfight and outproduce all regimented peoples" he declared.

• 1952, National Republic, Volumes 40-41, page 3:

  We must retire to private life the borrowcrats and taxocrats and bureaucrats. We must sweep out the blunderers, the plunderers, and the squanderers.

• 1968, Wayne Robert Gentilla, Program for Republicans: Including Ways to Raise Money to Run the Government without the Income Tax, William-Frederick Press (1968), page 46:

  Local taxocrats say that more money is needed to help Negroes and Puerto Ricans, so more taxes are levied.

• 1972, Bulletin, page 21:

  Even though we were able to devote only a small part of our energies to this particular battleground during 1972, the Birch Tax Reform Movement made significant contributions to the Americanist cause in a few encounters with the taxocrats.

• 1979, Gary Allen, Tax Target: Washington, '76 Press (1979), →ISBN, page 157:

  To the old adage that nothing is certain in life except death and taxes, a new one can be added: If the taxocrats continue unchecked, we will all soon be taxed to death!

• 1997, "Budget Amendment Would Raise Taxes", The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey), 24 March 1997:

  A federal balanced budget sounds good in political speeches, but in reality the idea is simply a taxocrat's dream, as it would become a constitutional order to cover all spending, even the unnecessary, deficit kind.