Tax day: US taxpayers spend hundreds more on military as Trump pushes for vast increase
Authority Laundering
How They Deceive You
Propaganda
Selective juxtapositions of military spending against trivial social program slivers, sourced heavily from an under-disclosed advocacy think tank, distort budget priorities and omit defense rationales.
Main Device
Authority Laundering
Presents the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive anti-militarism advocacy group with 'New Left' origins, merely as a 'progressive think tank' to validate its skewed per-taxpayer figures.
Archetype
Progressive anti-militarism budget critic
Embodies a left-wing worldview that frames US defense spending as wasteful excess crowding out essential social programs, timed to Tax Day for maximum populist resentment.
Launders biased think tank figures via selective tiny-social-vs-big-military contrasts and key omissions to deceive readers into viewing defense hikes as irrational bloat.
Writer's Worldview
“Progressive anti-militarism budget critic”
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