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News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
Published 5 years, 1 month ago
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.