At Saturday’s March For Our Lives, Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor David Hogg began his speech by fixing a price tag on the stage podium. “First off, I’m gonna start off by putting this price tag right here as a reminder for you guys to know how much Marco Rubio took for every student’s life in Florida,” the teenage activist said. “One dollar and five cents.”
The price tag was distributed to every Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student at the rally and was calculated by dividing the amount of money the Florida Republican has received from the National Rifle Association for his campaigns by the number of students in Florida. This implication, that lawmakers don’t have any sincerely held beliefs but rather just follow the money, is one of the laziest tropes in politics on both sides of the aisle.
