low taxes
Light fiscal burden
Low taxes describes a policy stance or economic condition where government levies on income, property, sales, or other activities are kept minimal.
The phrase appears constantly in political rhetoric, where candidates promise low taxes as shorthand for limited government intervention: She ran on a platform of low taxes and deregulation.
What counts as "low" is relative—compared to other jurisdictions, historical rates, or an idealized baseline.
- deductionsConclusions from reasoning
- loopholesExploitable ambiguities in rules
- offshoreAway from land
- havensProtected places of rest
- sheltersPlaces offering protection
corporate welfare · incentives · business-friendly · conservative · libertarian · Tea Party · small government · Reagan · supply side · trickle-down · wealth · corporations · exemptions · fair share · refunds · breaks · write-offs · red states
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- conservatismconservative, traditionalism, fiscal conservative, small government, free enterprise
- free marketsfree market, free enterprise, free trade, free markets, laissez-faire
- retirement livingFlorida, Arizona, Sun City, golf community, gated community
- Real Estate Goalshomeownership, equity, appreciation, profit, rental income
- center-rightChristian Democrats, CSU, Conservative Party, Tories, Tory
low taxesbig government
Expansive, powerful state apparatus
welfare state · wealth redistribution · progressive taxation · social democracy · statism
low, lower, lowest, lowly, lowness, tax, taxes, taxed, taxing