News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer" by Citations Needed Podcast
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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 Raúl Carrillo, Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School.

Ngl feel like I've waited by whole life for this episode. Infuriating when so called "progressives" use the word so often as well.

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    4 years ago

    You're spot on, they unpack the "transactional" nature of the term, among other things, definitely check out the episode.