News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
Podcast: Citations NeededPublished On: Wed Mar 03 2021
Description: On this News Brief, we discuss the ubiquitous weaponization of the term "taxpayer" in media and politics and how it deliberately smuggles right-wing, transactional and deeply racialized notions of people's relationship with their government into our cultural understanding of taxation, public spending and social services. Our guest is the Law and Political Economy Project's Raúl Carrillo.
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