taxaphobic

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1. informalFearing or opposing taxes.

   Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic people who believed in severely limited government.

   2011, Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 29

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   Today Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, from Illinois, has the challenging task of selling a taxaphobic nation on the rationality of spending much more on infrastructure.

   1992, George F. Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990, Free Press, →ISBN, page 173

   The complicated U.S. taxation systems, the bureaucratic madness of the April 15th deadline, drive honest taxpayers insane and most have become taxaphobic.

   2009, A. Semed Atick, Oh America!: Through The Eyes of an Immigrant, Xlibris, →ISBN