Well, if you want to be technical about it, what you actually wrote was that there is probably an easier way, and that easier way is what I was after. Murray was a little bit clearer in that no easier way exists; more specifically, a CSS tag equivalent to "label" simply does not exist. Not "I don't know of one, but maybe it's out there" -- but a firm "it does not exist" and that is why I gave him the correct answer (sorry).
This being said, think of how much more useful the "label" tag would be if it worked on anchor tags. 
Throwing the idea out there in the universe!