[dleslie]

It's not so dissimilar to the Tea Party movement in its early days. That was a fringe tax-revolt movement that relied heavily on misconceptions and ignorance about how progressive taxation works and who benefits from social spending; and it really took off when it gained assistance from private capital and public figures.

[luxuryballs]

I think that whole misconception and ignorance of how it works thing was more of the astro turfing rebuttals to delegitimize the movement. In reality you didn’t need any understanding of the tax system to see that the taxes are too high and entitlements are out of control, many of them insolvent.