anti-tax
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- noun
- /ˈæn.ti.tæks/
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medida antimpuesto
- From Talking Points Memo: Having run and lost on their central anti-tax stance, and with an austerity bomb nearing detonation, Republicans are softening their tone on the issue.
- anti-tax measure
Examples
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The state legislature is currently discussing an anti-tax bill aimed at limiting future tax increases.
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A couple of decades ago, for instance, California voters decided to pass a stringent anti-tax provision that, years later, continues to cause massive budget shortfalls and is contributing to the destruction of public higher education.
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Two "threats" to police dominance are the anti-tax movement and the local nature of police.
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Every Republican was now required to sign the anti tax pledge pledging that you wouldn't raise taxes.
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Jump up and down for joy and then realize that Tim Eyman, the generator of many conservative anti-tax initiatives in our state, is celebrating also.
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In 1978, the Lincoln Club helped launch the landmark California anti-tax initiative Proposition 13, which capped property taxes at an absurdly low rate and demanded all future tax raises in the state be approved by the legislature by a two-thirds margin.
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Many voters supported the anti-tax initiative, believing it would help keep more money in their pockets.
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The anti-tax measure was designed to make it harder for the government to raise taxes without public approval.
Synonyms
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A government decision to reduce the taxes people have to pay
Antonyms
How Restrictive
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Morphology
Etymology
Anti-tax joins the prefix anti- 'against' and tax 'money paid to the government', so an anti-tax law or proposal is literally a rule made to lower taxes or to stop the government from raising them.