Tax cuts shift funding from welfare to repressive state functions

Evidence

Consequently, support for state institutions of violence and repressive control – their enactment, enlargement, and (re)enforcement – has spiraled at the cost of a diminishing treasury burdened by dramatic tax reductions for the wealthiest and consequently crimped state revenues and squeezed social welfare commitments. Social welfare commitments (including subsidized education, health care, and pensions) are increasingly underor defunded, the resources sustaining them shifted to shoring up repressive state functionalities. The latter include the police, military, prisons, homeland security, border control, and the like. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1747

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s standing interest in punishment and state violence literature. — connects to: Neoliberalism funds repressive state functions at welfare’s expense; State budgets shifted from welfare to policing and prisons — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 446; Regressive taxation and spending cuts serve the same class-confiscating function — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 150 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism funds repressive state functions at welfare’s expense #corroborates (0.95)
• State budgets shifted from welfare to policing and prisons #expands (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 446
• Regressive taxation and spending cuts serve the same class-confiscating function #corroborates (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 150
• Neoliberal states redefined their mandate from welfare to securitization and control #corroborates (0.78)
• The state has shifted from welfare caretaker to regulator of flows #corroborates (0.75)
• States have shifted from citizen welfare to regulating flows, not withered away #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1804