evidence: Carter’s talk about disgraceful taxation seemed to be working — especially when he paired it with complaints about federal spending. "I am not in favor of taxing poor people in a rich country and sending it to rich people of poor countries," Carter said of U.S. foreign aid programs. "That’s what we’ve been doing." The populist framing of Carter’s fiscal rhetoric wasn’t subtle, and many political observers chalked it up to the influence of one of his key rivals for the Democratic nomination. "There is a strong populist flavor, and a faint echo of Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, when Mr. Carter denounces present income tax law and codes as ‘a disgrace to the human race,’" observed The New York Times [...] Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, D-Wash., offered an especially loaded charge. In language clearly intended to evoke memories of former president Nixon, as well as the American agony in Vietnam, Jackson accused Carter of developing a "secret plan" to hurt taxpayers by repealing provisions essential to their economic well-being. Carter was plotting "the destruction of the middle-class American family," Jackson told CBS News.