Edit Metaphor: Metaphor:TAXATION IS A BURDEN
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Facts about "TAXATION IS A BURDEN"
| Entailment | (obligation of) paying taxes negatively affects the taxpayer (presence of burden negatively affects burdened_entity's ability to move or act, ?, ?) + and amount of taxes is related to degree to which taxpayer is affected (weight of burden is related to degree of (negative) effect, heavy burdens have more effect than lighter ones, Scalar) + |
| Example | English (According to the Tax Foundation, Texas residents on average shoulder the fifth lowest tax burden compared to other residents in the 50 states., ?, ?, http://www.ci.garland.tx.us/business/profile/afford/tax.asp, ?, ?, ?) +, English (The Obama campaign is taking a swipe at Mitt Romney's tax plan in a new television ad, saying it will create a "heavy load" for the middle class., ?, ?, http://thehill.com/video/campaign/247159-obama-campaign-hits-romney-tax-plan-for-the-middle-class (Heavy load middle class), ?, ?, ?) +, English (President Obama decided to target certain and specific products or services he deems unhealthy and levied heavy taxes on them., ?, ?, http://usconservatives.about.com/od/economytaxes/a/A-List-Of-Barack-Obamas-First-Term-Tax-Increases.htm (Heavy taxes), ?, ?, ?) +, English (Remember when President Obama literally laughed out loud at the idea his health-care plan would impose taxes on the middle class?, ?, ?, http://www.redstate.com/2013/04/02/beware-the-gun-tax/ (Impose taxes), ?, ?, ?) +, English (The new president delivered on his tax cut promises, which, combined with a recession in 2001, caused the tax burden to fall considerably., ?, ?, http://taxfoundation.org/article/tax-freedom-day-2013-april-18-five-days-later-last-year (Tax burden), ?, ?, ?) + and English (New Taxes Burdensome for Farm and Ranch Families, ?, ?, http://www.fb.org/index.php?action=newsroom.news&year=2013&file=nr0305b.html (Taxes burdensome), ?, ?, ?) + |
| Has source frame | Frame:Burden + |
| Has target frame | Frame:Taxation + |
| Mapping | tax_payer (burdened_entity, ?) + and tax (burden, ?) + |
| Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
| Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Burden + |
| Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Taxation + |
| Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + |
| Related metaphor | is a source subcase of (TAXATION IS CAUSING HARM, ?) +, is a target subcase of (RESPONSIBILITIES ARE BURDENS, ?) + and is a target subcase of (DIFFICULTIES IN ACTION ARE PHYSICAL BURDENS, ?) + |
| Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:TAXATION IS A BURDEN#Is_example_of + |
