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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This is inexcusably idiotic. It’s difficult to imagine how educated people can convince themselves that this kind of vacuous type-vomit has any bearing on reality, practicality, or morality. You should have to write an apology addressed to everyone who read this festering garbage pile for wasting our time. You’ve robbed me of time that I could have spent doing literally ANYTHING else. Shame on you, your warped worldview, and your utterly insane ramblings.
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I’m dying. The author of this article is literally too stupid to insult.
63.7% of the taxpayers are paying 83% of federal taxes? I agree, this differential should be no greater than 5%, because equality at the racial profiling level.
Half a century of Affirmative Action and trillions of dollars worth of free stuff later = You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear … period.
The only thing that will solve it is a DNA recombination.
So, to sum this article up in a single line;
“To stop discrimination against people on the basis of skin colour, we need to start discriminating against people on the basis of skin colour”
Did I miss anything?
no
No these people really believe that.
This article was written by a racist.
It’s difficult for me to defend their 1st Amendment right when they call for a racist tax code
You can’t be racist against whites people. Period.
Its racist if it’s a double standard, if you say “I hate white people” then switch it to the opposite and say “I hate black people” and that sounds racist, then its racist to the latter as well. So, you CAN be racist to “whites people” because unlike your racist ass, I’m an egalitarian, so I know equality and you can’t be equal if you are racist against ANYONE, whether it be white, black, yellow, or brown. Period.
Um half the current population is racist against white people, the SMART half of the population is racist against the perpetuation of the stupidity gene pool that this idiot came from.
Yes you can. Do you even hear yourself…?
Richard… are you retarded? If you discriminate based on the ethnicity and/or skincolor of a person, that is racism. Period.
This bullshit argumentation in the likes of “power + discrimination = racism” so fucking offensive and cancerous. Do you idiots even realize that there is a whole world out there that doesn´t even have a concept of your U.S. American “I´m ethnic, so treat me special” bullshit?
God, guys like you really piss me off.
McCoy, that’s a very strange thing to say. Curious if you have ever been diagnosed with any mental disorder.
Richard you’re fucking retarded…
Richard, do you have to work at being an imbecile or does it come naturally?
Both the author and Dick McCoy here subscribe to this insane line of thought. In fact, many share this as well. Look at the comments here. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Black-pride-gay-pride-and-Asian-pride-all-viewed-positively-but-white-pride-is-viewed-negatively
The argument boils down to the sheer fact most races have a lighter skin color compared to blacks(duh), whites enjoy privilege 365 days a year. ‘White’ is the default color, so pride is not needed/taboo. A comparison was made that heterosexuality is the default, so no need for hetero pride. They want equality (in population basically) and ‘whites’ that do not identify as white (Hispanics, Asians, Europeans?) still count towards the ‘white’ headcount, leading to an over representation of these ‘minority’ races.
wow. Asians count as whites in the census.
All the stupidity you believe just a justification for your hatred.
I would really like to respond to this if only I could stop laughing long enough to collect my thoughts about how ridiculous this concept is…
Funny how im white and grew up poor going to shitty inner city schools and with a broken home, i havent seen any of this so called priveledge. Everything i have, I worked for. Why should i pay because the color of my skin is different, im disadvantaged too. You all miss the point. The battle is not between black and white, its between rich and poor regardless of color. The rich need to pay their fair share as far as taxes go
The rich already pay far more than their fair share. The top ten percent of tax payers pay 70% of the collected Federal income tax while the top 46% pay nearly 99% of it. The disproportionality of percentage paid increases as you move up the income scale to 1% and then to 0.1%. If, as you desired, the rich were to pay their fair share then the govt would grind to a halt, starved of revenue. The poor pay next to nothing in the taxes that pay for gas and bullets and free cheese. This is all well-documented fact and can be found on the CBO website or in many of the excellent essays by Thomas Sowell.
The white-guilt is strong with this one.
I’m not guilty. Quit being a dumbass. There is no such thing as white privilege.
As the article clearly points out, white people already pay 83% of the federal tax, meaning that we pay 4 times the amount of tax non-whites pay. if it were fully fair we should ratchet up the amount of tax POC pay to pay for non-working whites.
See how idiotic that sounds? That’s how idiotic YOU sound when you publish this nonsense
PoC already get plenty of tax funded free money from whites, it’s called WELFARE.
This a matter of political power in its most raw form. Once the precedent is created there would be no barrier to prevent punitive and discriminatory taxation on POC. It also would create a legal justification for the return of Jim Crow laws.
I try to be courteous and maintain a polite demeanor when posting online but in this case I fail.
THIS IDEA IS SO INCREDIBLY MORONICALLY STUPID FROM THE STAND POINT OF THE PEOPLE IT IS SUPPOSED TO HELP THAT IF IT IS NOT A PARODY THE CREATORS ARE TOO STUPID TO BE ALLOWED N PUBLIC LIFE.
Is this the Onion?
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Fuck this idea and the monkey nigger who wrote it. All you dirty apes need to fuck off back to africa….enjoy the swim. How’s that for racism,cunts?
Must suck to be so filled with hate and be such a narrow- minded prick!
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This will never happen. Ever. Anyone that thinks this tax plan is a good idea should be deported to either Cuba or some other Communist country.
Blacks should pay a 20% surcharge to cover all the welfare, crime, defaulted loans, ruined apartments and general urban decay and discord they create
Absolutely!
This is by far the most racist article I’ve ever seen on any publication. I hope you morons go bankrupt soon.
[…] “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,” the article claims. […]
Who will pay for the white lives lost fighting to end slavery?
Funny how most if the left is composed of privileged crackers with nothing better to rather than complain for other “oppressed” “under-privileged” people. I myself, a piasano who thinks your veiws are bat-shit crazy, espicially political, not gonna be affected by this. Freakin kek!
[…] White people should pay extra taxes because they are more privileged, an op-ed at WeSplain argues. […]
Is this supposed to be satire? If so its not very good, and if not its the worst piece of garbage I’ve ever seen written. The blind hypocrisy of not being able to see that a plan like this is the textbook definition of racism.
Replace the word white with the words black, Jewish or Muslim. See how racist it sounds? That’s because it is. Any time you single a group out based on their skin color and try to justify it based on actions they literally had nothing to do with is down right idiotic. Build me a time machine so I can go back to all of their ancestors and slap their hands for participating in slavery. Oh wait, that’s impossible. Quit acting like we should pay for something we could not have prevented. Should you pay for it when your dad commits a crime? No? Same story here.
Just because you’re not white, doesn’t mean you can’t be racist.
The author of this article should be gassed!
This is a level of stupidity that has become sadly typical of many liberals. Yes, let’s fix racism by imposing an admittedly racist tax. I can’t believe anyone would be stupid enough to support an idea like this, but sadly, some liberals will. It disturbs and saddens me that the country of my birth is capable of producing idiots of such staggering magnitude. Shame on any website or publication that provides a forum for idiots like this to spew their venomous, ridiculous rhetoric.
I already pay a tax, it is called welfare.
[…] “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,” the article claims. […]
Why stop with a privilege tax? Fuck it, let’s start an obesity tax, an intelligence tax and a shoe size tax too. Weigh more than 250lbs? Extra 5%. Have an IQ below 140? Extra 5%. Shoe size bigger than a men’s 12? Extra 5%. Let’s find a way to tax everything we don’t like about everyone around us, that is sure to promote equality!
So white people are paying more of their money for something that they can’t control, like their skin color? hmm… seems to me like that’s racism…
Wtf is this shit. There is no wage gap first of all you can’t say this white guy who is CEO of apple makes more than coloured factory worker and then their in equal wtf. Also if you want money work harder and it’s our country you chose to come here so fuck you if your upset with inequality you moved to our country and can put up with it!!!
Your graphic is inaccurate. Let’s assume the small bundle actually contains 1M$ USD. If the bundles in the 1B$ pile are the same denomination, then you need one thousand of those bundles to make 1B$ USD (1 000 x 1 000 000 = 1 000 000 000). To stack them neatly, you could arrange them in a cube with dimensions 10x10x10. This amount would surely fit on a single pallet, maybe two if you’re bad at stacking things on pallets. Therefore, the denominations on the bills in the 1B$ pile in this graphic must be smaller than the bills in the 1M$ dollar bundle, rendering the graphic meaningless.
This is fake, right?
“According to TaxFoundation.org, white Americans pay 83% of the federal income tax.”
“According to InfoPlease.com, whites account for 63.7% of the population (a population of 308.7 billion based on the 2010 census).”
Sounds to me like we already over pay by 20%.
Based the premise of the article, that I should pay 5% more than my fair share, I am hereby owed 15% back.
Prefer cash, but I will accept a teller check.
TIA, sincerely, whitey.
Rhodesia used tobe the bread basket of africa, exporting millions of tons of food to other countries. Now, its starving.
South africa has a president who now suggests forcefully taking back farms that white people own.
Soon south africa wil be starving and destitute. Africa is a cesspool, mostly, because of the africans.
Liberia? Repatriated slaves from America. Kiberia has no fish. They have no real economy, lawlessness is the norm.
In the USA, 13% of our population commits 52% of the serious crime.
I contend that we have already paid the privilege tax.
This idea in itself is racist! I work hard for my money, but this idiot presumes I have it easy! I’m not going to blame my failures on others. There’s entirely too much of an entitlement attitude these days! People looking for an easy way to make money without having to work for it! Because someone is white, they are privileged?! I’m white, but I grew up on Welfare and the charity of others, received with gratitude and humility. It is now, that I am working and supporting myself through my own hard work, that I now can be proud, not feeling at all privileged! I refuse to hand over my hard earned income to someone else, who I never wronged, but lets keep blaming current and future generations, for the crimes of our ancestors! The author of this article needs a reality check, not a paycheck!
Wow, I’m at a loss for words. The stupidity in this MUST be satire. Nobody can be this racist AND stupid.
THIs is satire right? Like this whole website is just one big troll right? RIGHT???!!!
I doubt it’s satire. I think it’s a well written piece, designed to enrage the ignorant and easily manipulated. My favorite part is that the privileged will rail against it. An attempt to shut down opposition. The piece is good. The material is trash. An excellent examples of how lynch mobs were started, how riots come to be, and how people can play on the ignorance of others to achieve an agenda (usually at the cost of lives and usually… not their own.)
Your presumption is false. If you make a demonstrably claim that all whites have it easier. So whites at DDay or dying in coal mines have it easier, is obviously false.
Whites who struggle. Will immediately recognize the claim is false. Anyone who thinks it through will realize its false. Whites who have it easy and are easily swayed. Like join a cult easily swayed. Well that is the group that will buy it.
In the future think through your assertions.
Kiss my American white ass because they won’t ever see a dime. I have been paying taxes since I was 15 and working like a dog just to eat. I served my country for 22yrs and my body is broken down – and I served alongside every color!! I have NEVER impoverished or enslaved anyone in my life and have always tried to give a hand up! Always – regardless of skin color! This is ridiculous. Affirmative Action leveled that field and reversed discrimination a long time ago. Mm mm mm. Whoever came up with this is an effin idiot.
Come and get it. Seriously. Come to my house and get the money. I dare you.
So what would a transgendered-white- pansexual person have to pay?
A mix race mostly white lesbian?
A barely above poverty line single woman living in an area of the country where White is usually only found on rice because the population is majority black or Hispanic?
White person married into a Hispanic family?
A white person who also has Native American blood??
Tired of this racism. White people are not necessarily privileged, just a despicable fallacy stemming from a desire to blame some group or other for so-perceived problems.
Say it loud – I’m white and I”m proud.
I think if you have no job and are on welfare you should not get a income tax check your all ready getting a hand out you don’t need more
[quote] 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. [/quote]
Wait… you mean that white Americans, who already pay 83% of the income tax, SHOULD PAY MORE?
Are you mentally defective, or just stupid?
[…] It’s Time for White People to Pay for Privilege: The Equality Tax […]
I also propose a black tax rate of 10% to make up for all the crimes committed by blacks.
Honestly this dumb shit is why I am glad Trump won, if only to stop this madness from progressing even further. I don’t like some of Trump’s ideas but atleast he is trying to get shit done. All he needs to do is do some more research into everything he is doing and he will be fine. As for this dribble, I love how Liberals and Democrats have put down the Black Community so badly. Go to New York city and damn near every one of them has the latest IPhone and a proper ID/License. Go anywhere and they have a proper ID/License, not everyone gets the silver spoon. I was raised poor, beaten near to death by a psychotic bitch of a mother, then neglected as an adolescent by my foster mother while I slipped into the dark side of our world (damn near killed me when I went into the Army to get out of that hell). I have seen the worst humanity has to offer, and very few of the scum are white, more are Latino, Asian, and African/Black and believe it or not I am white. You see it’s very easy to scream oppressed when you live off your racist as fuck families money and ideologies but as the guy whom lived through hell and back I will tell you this, the only oppressed people are the ones you attack and call racists.
So you’re a republican troll, right? There’s no way anyone is this stupid.
I can’t believe how many people couldn’t see that this is a parody. Probably because things really are headed in that direction.
[Puts on outraged hat]
This is the whole basis of why segregation is perfectly reasonable, both in separate nations and communities now.
Non-whites want to chase DOWN whites because Whites provide the social, moral and literal capital that subsidizes their lives and makes them better — at the expense of Whites.
IT is a subtle attack and theft of the White community.
So no : BUILD YOUR OWN.
This is also why so may leftists, who through envy or outright hatred want to bring down OTHER Whites, want ‘diversity’ brought to every White community.
Only then are Whites unable to avoid this covert subsidization and theft of the community capital they have built — until of course the ‘minorities’ have time to try to gain control themselves. Because ‘equality you know’
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everyone IS White Genocide.
This talk about “oppressed minorities” dissimulates the very real disenfranchisement of the White majority, and serves to deny us from our rights to public empathy, to dignity, or to even basically survive in a world of our own.
So you want the people who already pay 83% of the taxes to pay even more?! You are a special snowflake aren’t you, I hope you melt really really soon.