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Your position is that increasing the estate tax would do nothing to help segregation? Or that it wouldn't do enough and we should also do more?

• humanrebar 9y ago
  I'm not confident enough to make a definite prediction, but it seems plausible that it could make some forms of inequality worse. Attempts to level out education, for example, have resulted in the truly wealthy finding other outlets (private schools, expensive zip codes) to create the educational experience they want for their children.
  • frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
    In education we never actually integrated though. A few locations were integrated but only for a little while. It seems more like that the truly wealthy found those outlets regardless of what else was happening in education. It also seems strange to say: we shouldn't tax rich people because somehow, through a plausible method that I can't explain or predict, it will make rich people better off and poor people worse off.
    • humanrebar 9y ago
      I was referring to public schooling in general, not racial integration specifically. Integration among social classes is arguably getting worse now. You only go to school with the kids of bank vice presidents if you can afford to live in the same neighborhood.