"Tax-and-spend" nghĩa là gì?

"Tax-and-spend" = thuế và chi tiêu -> nghĩa là tiêu tiền phung phí và đánh thuế cao (đề cập đến cơ quan lập pháp thông qua các luật mới đắt đỏ và liên tục tăng thuế để bù đắp chi phí).

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We need leaders who are ready to face the serious challenges in our state budgets. What we don’t need is more of the same. It is time to put Illinois’ financial house in order and that begins with ending the tax and spend policies that have brought our state to the brink of insolvency. It is time to focus on real reform.

In his joint address to Congress last week, Biden called for a multitrillion-dollar agenda that could fundamentally transform the economy. And it now seems like the man conservatives called "Sleepy Joe'' has been pounding Red Bulls and is ready to tax and spend like no president in generations.

The pejorative (miệt thị, có nghĩa xấu) “tax and spend” catchphrase may become the new mantra (câu thần chú). Interest rates are being kept lower than inflation (lạm phát) as central banks have opened the tap and bloated their balance sheets (once a no-no). Governments too have opened the tap, none more than the US, and there are signs of a rich-country buy-in on higher corporate taxes amidst growing debate on new wealth taxes. Meanwhile, in country after region, tariffs and other walls are being put up as hurdles to international trade.

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