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.

The world is not so large as we are often lead to believe.

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.