Taking apart the tax side of Halogen’s argument:
1 - Social Security taxes: of the 8% of wage earners who make more than the Social Security limit and therefore pay less than 6.2% of their salary to the Social Security trust fund, a disproportionate number would be white, since blacks make less than whites overall. Therefore the regressive nature of this tax victimizes blacks to a larger extent than whites. Black life expectancy, meanwhile, is 72.2 years as opposed to 77.5 years for whites, so whites get more of the benefits from this tax even though in the broad aggregate they pay a lesser proportion of their income into it.
2 - Income taxes: seemingly, whites should pay more of their income than blacks, but this is so only if you exclude benefits received at work from the equation. Being specific, employer contributions to health insurance plans are subsidized through a tax expenditure worth 76.5 billion dollars. As more blacks than whites work at employers who don’t provide health insurance, this subsidy will accrue disproportionately to whites.
Moving on, some idea of just how tilted the tax code is to the black underclass can be gotten by looking at tax expenditures for housing. The figures are as follows:
Mortgage interest deduction 60,270,000
Property tax deduction 22,140,000
Capital gains exclusion 18,540,000
Rental passive losses 4,720,000
Low income housing 3,210,000
Rental accelerated depreciation 4,740,000
The score from the above: the top three lines, which accrue overwhelmingly to property owners with high incomes, who tend to be overwhelmingly white, get 88.8% of the tax relief from the above. The bottom three lines indirectly benefit renters to some small degree even though they too are directed at property owners, so perhaps some black renters might get some benefit from those lines.
But what about actual government spending? Aren’t all those welfare mommas cheating all those hard working white folks out of what’s justly theirs?
It’s tough to separate out what’s paid for by trust funds from what’s paid for from general revenues. However, given that the vast majority of trust fund expenditures are accounted for by Social Security and Medicare, and that a disproportionate amount of the benefits from those expenditures accrue to whites, let’s go straight to general revenues.
The biggest line items are:
1 - Interest on the debt: 362 billion: most bondholders aren’t minorities, so the beneficiaries of these payments are once again disproportionately white.
2 - National defense: 294.5 billion. This plus Veterans Affairs sums to 341.6 billion. These expenditures are probably fairly evenly distributed among the races.
3 - Income security: Aha! Welfare!! No, not so fast. They don’t break out all of the expenditures here, but the largest line item by far in this category is Federal employee disability and retirement benefits, at 77.2 billion. Like all retirement benefits, these will go more towards whites than blacks because of the longer life expectancy of whites.
I couldn’t even find a breakout for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the classic welfare program. Could it be because it’s so small a part of the budget that they don’t bother to break it out? Hmm.
In sum, it’s tough to find a Federal tax subsidy or any significant piece of government spending that benefits blacks disproportionately.
OTOH, if you massacred all those white property owners who hold a mortgage and are retired, you might make enough of a profit to make it worthwhile.
