Richard Hanania

White people are usually the biggest tax cut proponents.

And we know white people on average own more property than black people and therefore stand to benefit more.

Does this make the tax cuts a form of race warfare?

A perpetuation of white supremacy?

An example of greedy white people trying to keep minorities down for their own selfish gain?

You sure can find one billion people talking about how tax cuts are racially biased or opposed to equity or something.

Here are ten links, etc.

It's no devastating rebuttal to declare oneself tired of something.

Still, I'm tired of this.

After a decade of this discussion, I think many people are ready to stop thinking of everyday policy in terms of who, whom, and ready to discuss other facets like whether it overall increases or decreases net welfare, or how it manages the trade-off between individual freedom and the public good.

I think the decade we spent turning everything into identity politics resulted in worse policy than we got back when we were more reluctant to do that.

Everyone knows that some groups are richer than others, that the rich groups are more likely to oppose redistribution, and that the poor groups more often support it.

You can reframe this as a story of whites versus blacks, or boomers versus millennials, or the educated versus the working class, or the abled versus the disabled, or Jews versus Gentiles, or any of a thousand other dichotomies that all correlate with wealth and with one another.

Is this valuable?

Does it dry a single human tear?

I haven't noticed.

but it gets worse.

Consider the way that capitalism gets used in socialist spaces.

Although there are still a few classical Marxists with a clear conception of what capitalism is and why they hate it, most lefties just use capitalism to mean gestures around expansively at everything, with no concern about whether it involves market processes at all.

Israel bombing Palestine?