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The tax code helps white people get richer Vox.com 2 hrs ago Emily Stewart © Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Participants spelling out #TaxTheRich in Times Square at a demonstration in March 2021. Dorothy Brown spent years stumped by what was going on with her parents’ tax returns she couldn’t figure out why they paid so much, even though they were filing their taxes jointly, which the tax code is supposed to favor. A deep dive and a bit of detective work led the Emory University law professor to her answer: The federal tax code does favor married couples where one partner makes the lion’s share of income; it disfavors those with more of an even split. The former scenario has historically been more common for white couples, the latter for Black couples, including Brown’s parents. Her father, James, was a plumber, and her mother, Dottie, a seamstress and nurse, and they made similar amounts of money.

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