Tax policy’s racially disparate effects are pervasive and largely invisible

Evidence

That’s why I was wrong, all those years ago, when I went into tax law thinking that race wasn’t a part of it. The truth is, there’s nothing in this country that race and racism aren’t a part of—the very foundation of the United States emerged on the premise that black people weren’t fully human, and despite the progress since the civil rights era, the stories here show us how much work is left to be done. At first glance, tax policy may not be an obvious way to fight systemic racism. But as we’ve seen, its effects on black families are, by and large, insidious, debilitating, and ubiquitous. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 562

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tax law attraction rested on its supposed colorblind neutrality — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 17; Tax policy silently shapes each racial difference in the college experience — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 259; Race-neutral tax reforms perpetuate racial wealth gaps unless they account for societal racism — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 70 (+10 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tax law attraction rested on its supposed colorblind neutrality — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 17; Tax policy silently shapes each racial difference in the college experience — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 259; Race-neutral tax reforms perpetuate racial wealth gaps unless they account for societal racism — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 70 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial categories persist by being recoded as threats to fiscal and social security #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1758
• Neutral policies can produce racial disparities through disproportionate group exposure #complicates (0.72)