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Taboo is here employed in its loosest sense, quite a different one from that demanded by the context of the book, and it would have been better to have described raising taxes as a term that is “politically inexpedient” (itself a useful euphemism).
The authors define a euphemism as
But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).
Diaz then says that 20/20 conducted a "four-month" investigation (TV reporters like to brag about how long they spend on a story, a statistic that by itself means nothing) and was "surprised at what we found" ("surprised" is a TV-news euphemism for "appalled").
The industry calls this technique "treatment acceptance," a marvelous euphemism for parting you from your money.