With taxes due in just over a month, President Joe Biden’s priority for the United States
tax code
does not appear to be geared toward economic growth or ensuring American households, crushed by
inflation
, are able to keep more of their own money.
Instead, the Treasury Department, which houses the IRS, is focused on its “Equity Hub.”
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The hub “is currently led by the Counselor for Racial Equity, who coordinates and leads efforts across the Department to inform decisions with a focus on racial equity and work to ensure our programs create opportunity in communities of color,” according to the
website
.
A related committee within the Treasury Department will “identify, monitor, and review aspects of the domestic economy that have directly and indirectly resulted in unfavorable conditions for Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color.”
While Biden’s team tried to identify what he saw as racial problems in the tax system, one professor said that prior comments Biden made were “nakedly racist.” Even people like Biden, who seems committed to seeing
racism everywhere
, cannot win.
Brooklyn Law School Professor Steven Dean said lodged this claim against Biden for naming two tax havens that he wanted his administration to target, “both majority Black countries,” the professor lamented.
The professor heard a dog whistle that no one else heard when Biden “didn’t name any of the many other majority white countries — not majority white, Switzerland is not majority white, it’s almost entirely white,” he
told
Forbes. “But in his pitch for this tax measure was implicitly using race as a way to gather support for his effort.”
After Dean criticized the president, Biden “named Switzerland as well. So credit to him and his team for doing the right thing there,” he said.
The law professor
said
Biden’s comments, naming Bermuda and the Cayman Islands as tax shelters he wanted to target, “encapsulated the
racism and xenophobia
[the president] promised to purge from our political discourse.”
The tax code is not racist. It is full of loopholes and special giveaways and is too complicated for the average American to understand. But the current tax law does not come from a group of white supremacists who set out to make white people wealthier while taking away money from racial minorities.
I would be very interested in efforts to make the tax code much,
much simpler
, which would allow all citizens an easy way to file their taxes and avoid
audits
and IRS harassment. I am not an economist, so I cannot say that this plan or that idea is better than the other; but certainly, something like a
flat tax
or national
sales tax
that is understandable by the average person would be preferable to our current mess.
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Treating someone poorly based on the color of their skin is wrong and should be rejected. A complicated
tax code
that takes the average person hours to figure out and introduces waste and red tape into our economy is wrong and should be rejected as well. Not every problem has to stem from racism to deserve our attention.
Matt Lamb is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. He is an associate editor for the College Fix and has previously worked for Students for Life of America and Turning Point USA.
