UPDATE (2/27): We have reached out to the author of this article. They have confirmed that if you were born white, but identify as a different race or otherkin, you would be void from paying the Equality Tax. You would just have to submit proof that this transformation is genuine.
The Article:
It’s irrefutable, white people are privileged. Recognition of this basic fact of life is not enough. It’s time to take action to level the economic playing field. At a time when PoC is still tremendously disadvantaged, despite the best efforts of affirmative action policies, something else must be done.
The Equality Tax
Current US tax policy fails to recognize the inherent economic disadvantages that PoC face on a daily basis. Racist employers, a disproportionate targeting of minorities by law enforcement, racial wage gaps, poor inner city schools; these all contribute to what is an undeniable reality for minorities. A reality that equates to an unfair economic disadvantage.
To even the playing field, the privileged should pay more. I don’t know how much more, but it must be more. Let’s start at 5% as if centuries of subjugation could ever be righted by such a minuscule percentage. Certainly, the privileged can stand to spare 5% with all of their economic advantages.
What would a 5% Equality Tax Mean? ($151 Billion Dollars)
First, we have to do some math. According to USGovernmentRevenue.com, in the fiscal year 2017, the US government will bring in $3.64 trillion dollars from federal taxes.
According to TaxFoundation.org, white Americans pay 83% of the federal income tax.
This means that white Americans are responsible for approximately $3.02 trillion dollars that the government will receive in 2017. Add 5% to this number, and this means that minorities will benefit by a total of $151 billion dollars.
For your information, this is what 1 billion dollars looks like:
How would we use it?
While extracting this money is the most important aspect, not far behind is how it’s used. We must ensure that this money is used where it will benefit minorities the most.
If we kept things simple, we could redistribute the money based on non-Caucasian race status. According to InfoPlease.com, whites account for 63.7% of the population (a population of 308.7 billion based on the 2010 census).
This leaves $151 billion to be dispersed over 36.3% of the population, or 112 million. That’s $1,348 for every US minority individual or roughly $3,000 per minority household on an annual basis. While $3,000 could never rectify centuries of abuse, it could at least give minorities the financial tools to compete in a white, male-dominated society.
Caveats
This new tax initiative must account for several demographic factors in order to be the fairest, and most effective. The following could represent a potential tax breakdown based on these demographics factors:
- Single Heterosexual Caucasian Males
Equality Tax: 5% - Single Heterosexual Caucasian Females
Equality Tax: 4.5% - Married Heterosexual Caucasian Family
Equality Tax: 4% - Non-cisgender Caucasian
Equality Tax: 3%
This is a very simple template, and I concede that it could be much more robust.
The Inevitable Backlash
With the republicans in power and the rise of the alt-right, this new tax initiative is sure to enrage the privileged. But we must not back down. We must continue to voice our opinion, especially in this racist, misogynistic environment post-Trump.
They must understand that their economic success was only made possible by the blood and sweat of minorities.
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There are three genders. Male, female, and mental illness.
How about some proof? Oh wait you don’t have any because you’re a certified idiot
Guys aren’t girls and girls aren’t guys. Idiot.
More bullshit I see
The author is really an idiot…
You’re just a hypocrite, end it all pls.
Please just take a gun, insert it into your mouth, and pull the trigger
More bullshit I see
The author is really an idiot…
You’re just a hypocrite, end it all pls.
Great satire, or is the person whom wrote this legitimately a moron?
It’s hard to tell. The Left has become so asinine, ridiculous & retarded, it’s basically become a parody & satire of itself.
Being a left-wing liberal today, means being a Full Time, FULL RETARD.
Person who wrote this article was dropped as a baby
Repeatedly dropped….like on a daily basis. Also, the father must’ve been a retard, the mother did a shit ton of drugs all throughout the pregnancy, & the parents routinely fed their child lead based paint chips.
Gender and sex are the same thing
Why do people write such retarded articles like these?
How about some proof? Oh wait you don’t have any because you’re a certified idiot
I’m a regular guy and there’s nothing a fuktard like the author can do about it
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According to InfoPlease.com, whites account for 63.7% of the population (a population of 308.7 billion based on the 2010 census. There are only 7 billion people on the entire planet, IDIOT. 😆 😅 😂 🤣
The writer is clinically delusional. He/she/it should be involuntarily committed for psychological evaluation, & heavily medicated.
Wow congratulations, I didn’t think these levels or retardation were humanly possible, thanks for proving me wrong.
I’m not even white and I don’t even live in the west and find this stupid.
Kill yourself, racist.
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I would counter with an even more ridiculous suggestion that the privilege tax5% be spent on programs of mandatory birth control for minorities up to the age of 30 years, sterilisation of all minority criminals and the building of estates for minority single mothers at least 500 km from the coast.
This is one of the dumbest things.
The problem will end when POC (people of color) begin acting like whites (POA: people of accomplishment).
This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Hey OP, it’s a good thing you haven’t attached your name anywhere to this, because having this abomination on Google is enough to kill any job prospects you have. What in the fuck…
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are thugs and drug dealers filling tax return?
time also to send more white people in jail also, to balance things
and time for white teenage boys to punch elderly blacks in the face for no reason?
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Why didn’t the writer of the article not signed their name?
If there were a tax on any other race it would be blasted as racist and reminiscent of Jim Crow.
Racism is racism. End of story. Adopt the dictionary definition of racism if the definition of feminism works so well for you, and please stop inventing your own lexicon to write your narrative. The only people speaking your language are equally delusional as you.
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Who ever wrote this please feel free to get a lobotomy or jump off a bridge. If you believe it the sky fairies will catch you 🙂
if this is your idea of “equality” you seriously need to go get help.
this achieves the opposite of equality in fact by definition it is inequality by definition. if you think about all it would do is put us back to the stage of black people sitting in the back of the bus, but instead of black people it would be white people.
you can’t say anyone deserves this type of treatment no matter what their ancestors did because they can’t control actions that their ancestors did, not only is it not anyone living today it’s also the past. looking at it in hind sight doesn’t help a situation it only makes it worse.
also don’t forget the fact that the majority people who let the slaves free were white probably straight males. white people started a revolution to set POC free, yet for some reason all you guys can remember is the other part of the opposition that wanted to keep slave ownership going.
please reconsider your ideas, because the type of inequality that is displayed in this article would instantly spark a race war that would not have been caused by white people being racist, but rather black people being racist.
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The racist who wrote this inadvertently revealed that whites are already over-contributing to the federal taxes. “Whites account for 63.7% of the population,” yet “white Americans pay 83% of the federal income tax.” This means non-whites are 36% of the population and only contribute 17% of the federal taxes. Well, well, well… Nothing says “equality” like taxing a certain portion of the population for their skin color!
You could certainly see your skills within the paintings you write. The world hopes for even more passionate writers such as you who aren’t afraid to say how they believe. At all times follow your heart.
It’s time we started killing people who think like this author, they are becoming dangerous.
You eat shit and die author. White or not I was raised in a very poor family. Lost my father when I was 15. Frankly I will go on a murderous rampage if I am required to pay an extra tax just for being white.
White guilt liberals, you don’t have to wait for the government to take your money to help minorities! You can just give that money to them! What are you waiting for? All the rich celebrities and Tech and business giants and Politicians and bankers worth hundreds of millions could give enough money to save all impoverished minorities, BUT YOU WONT. You are hypocrites, who pretend to care, to make yourself feel better and to justify to yourself why you deserve all that money while others are suffering.
This won’t fly in America. That pesky constitution and bill of rights, that make everyone equal under the law.
If you want to argue if a tax hike should be set on race. I think you should pay tax according to how much your race takes from the government. Prisons, food stamps, welfare, that kind of thing, you pay for how much federal money your race is responsible spending. We will quickly find out what race is the biggest drank on the system (but we know that already).
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WHO IS NOW BEING RACIST ???????? DUMB FUCKS. WHAT IS WITH ALL THE POOR WHITE PEOPLE SHOULDNT WE CARE ABOUT THEM…. NO BECAUSE THEIR WHITE WOULD BE YOUR ANSWER
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