Friday, August 20, 2004

Eugene Volokh (UCLA) responds to today’s TaxProf post on Illinois Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes’ defense of his proposal to exempt African-Americans from the income tax:

[I]f you compare (1) raising taxes on whites to pay for the lowering of taxes on blacks and (2) raising taxes on whites and blacks to pay for cash grants to blacks, it’s hard to see how either is any more or less “extortion from the fellow citizens of people here in America, based on the idea that somehow or another that would be requital for slavery” than the other.