To get rural voters, just tell them that federal government spending for rural economies reduces household reliance on bank loans
For as long as the Democratic Party continues to embrace Monetarism, no amount of the usual economic statistics that you throw at voters will change the perception that Republicans are better for the economy and price inflation.
The 1960s loom large in the collective imaginary of mainstream America. 1968, in particular, is constantly invoked to lend more credence to the idea that we are currently looking at a destructive uprising, as young people are – yet again! – giving in to irrational impulses. 6/
Whatever social, racial, and political progress we have achieved since the final third of the twentieth century: The protests of the 60s have had a lot to do with that. To reduce their legacy to “Nixon won” is simplistic and disingenuously reductive. 11/
and the fact that it is ultimately a form of pleading is the reason that it is super, super, super repellently-cringey to everyone, including impressionable voters and impressionable non-voters, who is not already inside of the bubble of people who use this smarmy phrase.
Why would you want to promote this way of thinking, other than to justify the continued exclusion of the already excluded?
Doing so encourages people who need healthcare to reject universal healthcare because it is shameful to be funded by "other people's money" in your most vulnerable times, and the "taxpayers" will be able to claim that they fund you. I explained here: jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-tax-to...
A recent Facebook meme demonstrates that a major source of contempt for the poor and marginalized is the tax-to-spend myth - and progressive and liberal people's dignification of it.
Also, "net taxpayer" here is a bit of a redundant term, because, since practically everyone pays taxes in some way, "taxpayer" necessarily means "NET payer", and the only reason to point out that someone is a "net payer" is if you want to divide people into "net payers" and "net receivers".
Because "taxpayer" identity and thinking doesn't favor "people who pay taxes". "Taxpayer" identity and thinking favors people who have the greatest CAPACITY TO pay the *largest quantities of* currency in taxes.
"But the rich don't pay taxes! "Well, don't you want them to pay more taxes? Yes? Then, if you're not rejecting the "taxpayer" framework, you're making rich people the ultimate "taxpayers".
