As negotiations over the next wave of federal support for the economy continue, Republican critics of further relief spending are reverting to an old idea of the besieged taxpayer as funding extravagant projects, writes Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies, .
“In this worldview, the 'taxpayer' (almost always figured as White, male and affluent — but oppressed) replaces the citizen in the political imagination,” , “and the main task of politics is to ease the burden of this besieged taxpayer rather than support the public good.”
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