Analysis Of Elizabeth Bruenig's Dear Politician, Stop Calling People

In “Dear Politician, Stop Calling People “Taxpayers” ”, Elizabeth Bruenig focuses on justifying that it is not right to only address the people as taxpayers. According to the author, taxpayer terminology seems to “wrongly [divide] the public into various private interest sets” (Bruenig). I agree with the author that it is wrong to address only the taxpayers instead of the people because it narrows the greater margin of population and it also creates a divide among people. The politician should not use the words people and taxpayers interchangeably in their speeches and writings because the terms are not the same. They are actually “rival ideas”. While “people” defines “the broadest possible public as the subject of a political project, “taxpayer”