Would you support a white privilege tax?

[MiddleRoad]

Would you support a white privilege tax?

[HillGoose]

race doesn't exist bro it was made up to divide the sheeple

we r all the same

[Ferguson97]

MiddleRoad, I served with bronz. I knew bronz. Bronz was a friend of mine. MiddleRoad, you're no bronze threaf.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The single most idiotic thing ElectionsGuy ever said (and there's TONS of competition) was saying that Minneapolis would vote for such a thing if it was on the ballot. LOL!`

[BlueSwan]

No.

Such a tax would almost certainly increase racial tension and resentment rather than do any good.

[RINO Tom]

race doesn't exist bro it was made up to divide the sheeple

we r all the same

"Race" absolutely exists, but it does not line up with our perceptions based on skin tone whatsoever.  There is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world combined, for example.

[President Johnson]

bronz threaf w/o bronz

[MiddleRoad]

Racially discriminatory laws are examined by the courts with a strict scrutiny test. Is the legislation that discriminates on the basis of race narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest? If it isn't, then it gets struck down. What would be the compelling reason to tax white people worse than black people?

They deserve it for being white

[Fuzzy Bear]

Racially discriminatory laws are examined by the courts with a strict scrutiny test. Is the legislation that discriminates on the basis of race narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest? If it isn't, then it gets struck down. What would be the compelling reason to tax white people worse than black people?

They deserve it for being white

bronz threaf w/o bronz

This poster is even worse than bronz.

But not as bad as politicians that actually discuss this idea.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Racially discriminatory laws are examined by the courts with a strict scrutiny test. Is the legislation that discriminates on the basis of race narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest? If it isn't, then it gets struck down. What would be the compelling reason to tax white people worse than black people?

They deserve it for being white

bronz threaf w/o bronz

This poster is even worse than bronz.

But not as bad as politicians that actually discuss this idea.

So in other words not as bad as people who don't exist.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Racially discriminatory laws are examined by the courts with a strict scrutiny test. Is the legislation that discriminates on the basis of race narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest? If it isn't, then it gets struck down. What would be the compelling reason to tax white people worse than black people?

They deserve it for being white

bronz threaf w/o bronz

This poster is even worse than bronz.

But not as bad as politicians that actually discuss this idea.

So in other words not as bad as people who don't exist.

If they don't exist, let's work hard to keep the status quo.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

LOL No.

It's an example of out of touch politicians on both sides (just like the criminalize abortion/allow it in the third trimester) that simply 'help poor people and since more minorities are poor they get more help' is not a popular idea.

[Cokeland Saxton]

No. This is just hypocrisy. This will increase tensions between races for dumb reasons.

[Dr. MB]

Yes (sane)

[David Hume]

Racially discriminatory laws are examined by the courts with a strict scrutiny test. Is the legislation that discriminates on the basis of race narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest? If it isn't, then it gets struck down. What would be the compelling reason to tax white people worse than black people?

They deserve it for being white

bronz threaf w/o bronz

This poster is even worse than bronz.

But not as bad as politicians that actually discuss this idea.

Are there any politicians who support this?

[Fuzzy Bear]

Racially discriminatory laws are examined by the courts with a strict scrutiny test. Is the legislation that discriminates on the basis of race narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest? If it isn't, then it gets struck down. What would be the compelling reason to tax white people worse than black people?

They deserve it for being white

bronz threaf w/o bronz

This poster is even worse than bronz.

But not as bad as politicians that actually discuss this idea.

Are there any politicians who support this?

Fortunately, no one with a chance of getting elected. 

[Xing]

No, and even in places like Seattle, the number of people who would privately vote for this would be incredibly low.

[parochial boy]

One of the craziest things is that when slavery was abolished in the British empire the former slaveholders were "compensated" by taxes paid essentially by the poverty stricken British working class. The descendants of those slaveholders are now disproportionately, overwhelmingly overrepresented among the biggest fortunes in the Britain today. Off the back of the exploitation of slaves and money literally given to them by the British working poor.

It may not be a "white privilege class", but should be these people now be subject to confiscatory wealth taxes on the gains that they inherited? Of course. And should this money be used in part to recompense the British tax payers - but also the plantation colonies - that made these people rich? Well I think so, yes.

Also France should definitely pay the "debt" that it carried on extorting from Haïti well into the 20th century

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No, and even in places like Seattle, the number of people who would privately vote for this would be incredibly low.

Don't tell ElectionsGuy!

[FairBol]

Fu** no.  Racism in all its ugliness. 

[All Along The Watchtower]

What is that?

[pikachu]

No, and even in places like Seattle, the number of people who would privately vote for this would be incredibly low.

Tbf while it’d obviously not pass anywhere, I’d expect it to better in a majority-minority city like Oakland than somewhere mostly white like Seattle or Minneapolis.

[GregTheGreat657]

[MiddleRoad]

What about a melanin tax?

[Antonio the Sixth]

One of the craziest things is that when slavery was abolished in the British empire the former slaveholders were "compensated" by taxes paid essentially by the poverty stricken British working class. The descendants of those slaveholders are now disproportionately, overwhelmingly overrepresented among the biggest fortunes in the Britain today. Off the back of the exploitation of slaves and money literally given to them by the British working poor.

It may not be a "white privilege class", but should be these people now be subject to confiscatory wealth taxes on the gains that they inherited? Of course. And should this money be used in part to recompense the British tax payers - but also the plantation colonies - that made these people rich? Well I think so, yes.

Also France should definitely pay the "debt" that it carried on extorting from Haïti well into the 20th century

But all this can be achieved through simple wealth redistribution, without using the power of the state to actively codify and reify racial categories. It is a fact that there are enormous wealth disparities across racial groups, but the logical corollary of that is that policies that take from the rich to give to the poor ALSO have the potential to significantly level racial disparities. It's not a perfect tool, to be sure, but it certainly has a better track record than affirmative action, as the American experience should have made abundantly clear.

And yes, of course I support full reparations for Haïti, but international reparations are a wholly different concept from state redistribution policies, and conflating the two strikes me as obfuscatory.