News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
Added 2021-03-03 15:13:19 +0000 UTCOn 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 government into our cultural understanding of taxation, public spending and social services.
Our guest is Raúl Carrillo, Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School.
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Guest
Raúl Carrillo is an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School, Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project, and also Chair of the Modern Money Network. Previously, Raúl served as Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Follow him on Twitter @RaulACarrillo.
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Show Notes
Reflections: Challenging Monetary Sanctions in the Era of Racial Taxation
Raúl Carrillo | 2020 | UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review
The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'
Raúl Carrillo and Jesse Myerson | October 19, 2017 | Splinter News
The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy
Vanessa Williamson | 2021 | Dissent
Raúl Carrillo | August 14, 2020 | Current Affairs
Government funds are not ‘taxpayer money’ — media and politicians should stop confusing the two
Jonathan Barrett | January 14, 2021 | The Conversation
Closing the racial wealth gap requires heavy, progressive taxation of wealth
Vanessa Williamson | December 9, 2020 | The Conversation
Stop worrying about protecting ‘taxpayers.’ That isn’t the government’s job.
Lawrence B. Glickman | August 3, 2020 | The Washington Post
The Government Can Afford Anything It Wants
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein | June 19, 2020 | The New Republic
There was always a way to pay for the programs we need
Sam Adler-Bell | March 30, 2020 | The Outline
Matthew B. Gilbert | March 18, 2020 | The Harvard Crimson
Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship 1869-1973
Camille Walsh | 2018 | University of North Carolina Press
The Hidden Structures of Inequality: The Federal Reserve and a Cascade Of Failures
Emma Coleman Jordan | June 2017 | Journal of Law & Public Affairs
Why do conservatives want the government to defund the arts?
Aaron D. Knochel | February 5, 2017 | The Conversation
Tamara K. Nopper | July 16, 2020 | The New Inquiry
The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice
Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel | 2002 | Oxford University Press
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this News Brief, go here.
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Comments
Amazing interview -- thank you Adam & Nima!
Mike Lewis
2021-03-03 22:06:39 +0000 UTCGreat show, yet again. 'Taxpayers' Money' is a phrase employed in discourse and especially the media to make one feel guilty for being able to avail of a public service. Nice to see it eviscerated here.
Ciaran Colley
2021-03-03 17:14:05 +0000 UTC
