> I think the demand for a public works programme funded by redistributive taxation is an intelligent one to pose, and will help fundamentally shift the political and cultural representations of tax in the US.
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> Unless there are Tea Party infiltrators, the argument against demands on the state certainly sounds like an anarchist one. This is where consensus decision-making could potentially reach its limits, if a small number of people were able to block this demand.
It's actually a prominant populist-left strain in US politics, one where people hate the Tea Party but wouldn't identify as anarchists -- too radical and weird. You can see it in the "Move Your Money" campaign or reflexive support for small businesses. It's the endemic ideology.
-- Andy