A number of candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination have voiced their support for an increasingly mainstream position among Democrats: paying reparations to black Americans. Today, let’s talk about how the United States was built on the backs of slaves, how the Founding Fathers embedded the inequality of black people in the Constitution, and how the federal government built up the wealth of the white middle class during the New Deal, promoting redlining and other modes of racial segregation. Let’s talk about police killings of unarmed black people and mass incarceration. Let’s talk about reparations.
Getting Caught Up On The Issues
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We’re done with taxes. (Hooray?) Now it’s time to get caught up on some items that might have gone under your radar with everything else in the news for the past few weeks (or months, or years).
The Taxman Cometh
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It’s income tax season, and while very few of us enjoy sitting down to do our taxes, the outlook is worse this year for many. (Remember that awful tax bill that passed at the end of 2017? Yeah, more on that in a minute.) Fortunately, there are also tax-related avenues of #resistance. Let’s get to it.