[camgunz]

I understood your argument to be that the rich tend to find ways to pass on their taxes, which I might even agree with--maybe, so I was thinking that if taxes don't do it then what would. I agree with my sibling though: the tax code is where we've subsidized people for generations now because of our discomfort with giving benefits to Black Americans. I think it would be hard to convert all that into equivalent benefit programs, and I think that's why people on the right advocate so much for it, because the likely end result is that many of those programs are cut, and the rich still only pay capital gains.