The world is not so large as we are often lead to believe.
AbleJauntyLobster
joined 2 years ago
As luck would have it, I work in one of the buildings pictured. The driver is a local nuisance. He was attempting to draw attention to a conservative candidate in an election to be held the next day. This was weeks ago now. The truck was towed because you can’t park on a pedestrian mall like that. It was report he was yelling stuff about “big hairy balls” but it was after work hours so I don’t have the information first hand.
A thing many people don’t understand about American political discourse is that much of our anti-tax extremism is not really to do with taxes but rather a reaction to the Civil Rights movement. Overt racial animus became untenable in the 1970s so politicians looking to agitate white suburban voters began to use “Taxpayers” as a synonym for white people and “Wellfare recipients” to mean non-white people. From this perspective, the anti-tax agenda can be understood more as a white supremacist project than any objection to the concept of taxation. It’s about who gets what, not really about the how.