Single white wealthy people organize tax protests while black families cannot
Evidence
Privileged Americans have always had the power to mobilize for action when they feel that tax policy is mistreating them. Post-1948, the segment of the population who were unhappy with the tax cut received by wealthy couples like the Seaborns were those who were white, wealthy, and single. And they were fighting mad. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 114
Categorization
- XREF: Foreshadows the political-economy of tax reform: policy responds to whoever is loudest and richest, which is the mechanism by which black interests stay absent from the equation.