WTF does race have to do with taxes?

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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It's that time of year again: time to file your taxes. And this week on the pod, we're revisiting our conversation with Dorothy A. Brown, a tax expert and author of The Whiteness Of Wealth: How The Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans And How To Fix It. She talks through the racial landmines in our tax code and how your race plays a big role in whether you get audited, how much you might owe the IRS, which tax breaks you can get, and even which benefits you can claim.

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0:27.0	I'm Jean Dembe.
0:28.0	And I'm Lori Lissaraga.
0:29.0	And on this episode, we are talking about taxes. We got to do them every year. Y'all know how it goes.
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0:39.2	anything in this life but death and taxes oh taxes they're ridiculous they're complicated and to be honest
0:47.6	gene they're kind of scary listen listen I keep thinking about that viral tweet that goes up in like, my son asked me to explain taxes, so I gave him a bag of em andms and told him that he has to give me some of those em andms, and I know how many of those he has to give me but he has to guess
1:05.4	himself and if he guesses wrong he goes to prison which is a fun way to
1:10.0	explain taxes as candy and prison as prison.
1:13.0	Like you said Lori taxes are ridiculous they're scary but this is cold switch
1:18.1	baby what do taxes have to do with race and identity right?
1:21.8	Well as it turns out, kind of everything?
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:26.0	Today on the show, we're going to get into how our tax system has benefited white people,
1:30.0	how it's hurt black folks,
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