In general the left in the US will benefit from an understanding of what socialism actually is, so every time this phrase comes up, we need to shoot it down until it dies.
In general the left in the US will benefit from an understanding of what socialism actually is, so every time this phrase comes up, we need to shoot it down until it dies.
Maybe this is just because I've been an unrepentant wonk for so long, but I have mostly heard the term in the context of massive tax breaks for corporations. The Democrats have a very difficult time articulating the idea that a tax cut is actually a budgetary expense, so this sort of language is what they resort to. The few that care about it, that is. Most of them couch tax cuts in terms of "opportunity" or somesuch other similar weasel nonsense.