News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"

<div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6t2" data-offset-key="2hdsr-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2hdsr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2hdsr-0-0">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.</span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2hdsr-0-0"> </div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2hdsr-0-0"><span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Our guest is the Law and Political Economy Project's Raúl Carrillo.</span></div> </div>