Tax the Patriarchy
The U.S. tax code helps entrench gender divisions. It doesn’t have to be that way.
by Annie Lowrey
Nov 13, 2019
3 minutes
Updated at 10 a.m. ET on November 14, 2019.
The Rube Goldberg mess of the United States tax code picks winners and losers as it raises trillions of dollars for the federal government. It advantages unearned income over earned income. It advantages big, mortgaged homes over little, rented apartments. It advantages the richest of the rich over the merely rich. And, in many cases, it advantages men over women.
That last claim is the contention of produced by the
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