Pay-for
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pay-for is a noun meaning (US, politics) Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes.
Meaning
(US, politics) Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes.
Example Sentences
The government is debating whether to include various pay-fors in order to fund the new infrastructure bill.
The bill is instead paid for by a jumble of pay-fors, including $40 billion from the Federal Reserve surplus account, which acts as a cushion to help the Fed take potential losses.
"Other industries were probably better prepared to fend off being a pay-for," said Ed Mills, Washington policy analyst at Raymond James. "This is the first time they've really been on the menu."
Why is it, she [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] retorts, that these questions arise only in connection with useful ideas, not wasteful ideas? Where were the 'pay-fors' for [George] Bush's $5 trillion wars and tax cuts, or for last year's $2 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires?
Word Forms
- pay-fors
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