> People buy into the propaganda that their taxes will go up
That's not propaganda. State and local taxes in Wa state have gone nowhere but up for the last 40 years I've lived here. Sound Transit has gotten themselves huge tax increases.
It's related since there's a very strong argument you (and Americans in general) aren't paying enough taxes and some things should be outright banned (single family homes on 75% of built land, in a country with an ever-growing population and a housing affordability crises and some of the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions; maybe that percentage should be 50% or 33%)).
But that's political suicide to say out loud as a politician.
Propaganda can be true and factual; perhaps what the parent comment meant is that a minor detail can be exaggerated to dissuade / influence a voter's behavior.
That's not propaganda. State and local taxes in Wa state have gone nowhere but up for the last 40 years I've lived here. Sound Transit has gotten themselves huge tax increases.