News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
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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.
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Our guest is the Law and Political Economy Project\'s Ra\\xfal Carrillo.