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| The Price of Privilege |
| 2017-03-20 |
| [SultanKnish] A proposal has been making its way through the social justice sewer system to have white people pay a 5% privilege tax. That would be a lot cheaper than the current wealth redistribution built into the tax system. In 2004, black people made up 12% of the population and 20% of those who didn’t file taxes at all. It was estimated that 50.7% of African American households, 52% of Hispanic households and 37% of white households paid no income taxes. The numbers would likely have only gotten worse after the recession, which destroyed large numbers of African-American jobs, and the Obama years, which traded social welfare for economic progress, An otherwise equal tax system with a 5% white privilege tax would be an enormous improvement. How do you calculate the income losses for a white student shut out of college by affirmative action or a white business owner’s income losses due to preferential business programs aimed at minorities? Not to mention that incompetent with a degree is a lot more harmful than one without. Mind you, IMO, the real enemy are "cognitive elites", not their dupes. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 what about a tax on those who more heavily impact...say... our Justice and Penal system costs? Wha? That's Rayyccissss? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-20 21:40 |
| #5 Well I now identify as pink (er... light salmon then...). Where's my free shit? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-03-20 21:05 |
| #4 I wonder how much potential wealth was lost from all those Civil War casualties -- even if we only count the Union ones. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-03-20 20:54 |
| #3 It's like sarcasm, JQC. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-20 15:40 |
| #2 5% privilege tax for being white? I get the author's point about it being cheaper--it's about cost. There's a privilege of being white? I hadn't noticed that privilege. What is it? One should fight such nonsense on the basis of principle not cost. More PC BS. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-20 15:24 |
| #1 We can be one nation. Or we can start charging racial taxes. The choice is ours. The author should sit down with his CPA for a chat. He has obviously never heard of the "Earned Income Tax Credit." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-20 06:55 |