He would have a better chance than most to unite the party's two main factions: its old-fashioned tax-and-spend populists and pro-euro modernisers.
No wonder pro-government tax-and-spend liberals hate this idea.
As the party lost one, two, three, four successive general elections from 1979 on, so it ditched unpopular commitments: unilateralism, anti-Europeanism, tax-and-spend.
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Vitter seems to have convinced himself that tight money is connected to fiscal conservatism and loose money is connected to tax-and-spend fiscal policies.
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She appeals to Mr Papandreou's idealistic side, and also goes down well with tax-and-spend socialists who recall Mr Papandreou's father, Andreas, as prime minister in the 1980s.
And on taxes, Obama blasted the McCain campaign for painting him as a tax-and-spend liberal.
Because the long term returns from real savings and investment are so much higher, saving and investing over a lifetime the 2.9% Medicare payroll tax in the personal accounts would produce an income stream in retirement roughly three times as large as the uninvested, tax and spend, purely redistributive, pay-as-you-go Medicare payroll tax today.
When banks stopped lending, and private-sector spending and investing collapsed, governments continued to spend, even though tax revenues were falling.
Labour would have avoided this summer storm over tax if it had not reverted to tax-and-spend.
Meanwhile, Republicans depicted Ross as a tax-and-spend liberal who would empower terrorists by cutting defense spending.
But such wastage is a luxury that America can afford because of its relatively lower tax-and-spend burden.
Interestingly, even Obama, who is nothing if not a tax-and-spend liberal and then some, has shunned the label.
The Republicans are going to call you "tax-and-spend" liberal Democrats, and that's a charge that's been effective in the past.
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So we're still saddled with this notion of the tax-and-spend model when, if you actually look at it, we've been very fiscally responsible.
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Obama tried to paint his rival as an extension of George W. Bush, while McCain sought to portray the Democrat as a tax-and-spend liberal.
The state's progressive tax-and-spend experiment is broken, threatening basic services, from courts and parks to education and health care for its most vulnerable citizens.
His presence reinforced this magazine's repeated call for new thinking in the powerful tax-and-spend ministry if Euroland's No. 2 player is to spur economic growth.
Kerry dismissed the president's labeling of him as a tax-and-spend liberal.
And right now what you see is on the Republican side an effort to blame Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, to portray Democrats as tax-and-spend.
The Democrats were pushed out of power partially because they were seen as a tax-and-spend party, and now Obama is moving to restore that failed reputation.
Indeed, Democrats in swing states have often voted with them when the idea has been put to the test, for fear of being labelled tax-and-spend liberals.
As for the Liberal Democrats (despite their silly claim to be the main party of opposition), they praise the government for adopting their own tax-and-spend agenda.
If these and the hundreds of local ads like them are to be believed, politicians in America are tax-and-spend, sex-crazed criminals who want to take medicine away from sick people.
Mr Rove has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to tagging the senator as a tax-and-spend paleoliberal who believes in coddling drug addicts, abolishing the death penalty and protecting partial-birth abortion.
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Old tax-and-spend habits, picked up over decades as Sweden cushioned its people with the kindest welfare state in the world, had apparently been discarded as new-look, fiscally tight Social Democrats waged war on public debt.
After accusing a tax-and-spend Democratic administration of being too soft on welfare cheats, stroppy students and violent blacks, Reagan won by almost 1m votes, or almost exactly the margin by which Brown had beaten Knowland to win the governorship eight years earlier.
Ronald Reagan, who, as I recall, is not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases.
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Mr. Gettelfinger is right that the union has made major concessions to the car companies in recent years, and that states did spend tax dollars -- though probably not as much as the union contends -- to attract Japanese, German and Korean auto makers to build factories.
It's no wonder Big Government types have been actively pushing for similar laws in other states--such laws might eventually be overturned, but until they were, political opponents would have to fight to get around barriers instead of being focused on giving voters the opportunity to rein in tax-and-spend politicos.
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