The claim that most Americans benefit from the marriage tax is race-coded

Evidence

It’s time to reexamine the idea that “most Americans” get a tax benefit through marriage, and be honest about what we find: “Most Americans” means most white Americans. The sooner we understand that, the sooner we’ll have a productive answer to Greg’s question. But if we allow these misperceptions to remain, the answer, for the Galloways and other young black couples like them, will be: “We can’t.” — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 166