Tax policy, not generational poverty, explains racial marriage wealth gaps

Evidence

But the authors of the study made a common mistake—the same mistake that the political left often makes—citing black generational poverty as the reason blacks don’t benefit from the wealth-building aspects of marriage. That explanation certainly holds some historical weight, but today, as my research shows, tax policy is key to understanding that equal income is not equal across racial lines: Two does not equal one. Tax policy decisions help make white married couples richer. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the ‘marriage cure’ welfare-reform logic; connects to 1996 welfare reform literature and Heritage Foundation positions.
• SEED: The ‘Two does not equal one’ phrase could anchor a viral explainer on structural racism as mechanism.