If that something is corruption and that impact is disenfranchisement of US citizens than yes, that is always wrong no matter who the group.
Of course, but your initial post did not convince me that that was the case.
But the GOP paying a private firm to illegally remove tens of thousands of blacks from the voting registrars was not "enforcement of any law," The opposite, in fact.
There is no need to exaggerate. The highest estimate I saw was 1,300 not "tens of thousands". The fact that the firm was private is irrelevant. The government hires private contractors all the time for a variety of reasons.
And the GOP was enforcing laws on the books- they were removing people flagged as being felons, mentally incompetent, etc. Now was their enforcement of that law incompetent? To some degree, yes, as there were people removed that shouldn't have been.
Including federal and state taxes, the tax code likely “worsens” the wealth gap, said Kim Rueben, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. Local taxes tend to be flatter, eating up more money from lower-earning households as a proportion of their income, she noted.
Disparities are less clear when focusing on the federal code, she said. Higher earners pay higher income rates — but they also have access to “special aspects of the tax code.” That includes the rules surrounding capital gains and inheritances, she noted.
“For people starting with less assets, which on average black and Hispanic households are, it is harder to access these benefits in the tax code,” Rueben said.
“There’s nothing in the way the federal income tax is written that’s explicit about race. But because of the demographics and characteristics of different taxpayers, it can have different effects,” she later added.
That is a pretty poor interpretation of the tax code. The capital gains taxes are a double tax- after the richer people pay the higher tax rates on the regular income, they are paying taxes on that money again after they invest after-tax dollars and make money.
Inheritances are also not taxed for a good reason- the money used to buy the houses, investments, land, etc were all bought with after-tax dollars. Why tax somebody for dying?
That is a clearly partisan reading of things to call it "special aspects of the tax code". The Tax Policy Center over a decade ago showed that 47% of Americans did not pay income taxes.
Paying no taxes at all seems like more of a "special aspect of the tax code" than "paying lower rates the second time you get taxed".
The first list DBT Online provided to the Division of Elections in April 2000 contained the names of 181,157 persons. Of these, approximately 65,776 were identified as felons. 88% of this list were Black (FL is 11% Black). That's 159,418 Blacks removed from the rolls. In May, election official complaints led to the discovery that at least 8,000 people on the list had never been convicted of more than a misdemeanor. DBT never claimed that more than a third of the removals were due to felony convictions and even that list was shown to be extremely tampered with. Election day revealed thousands and thousands more on the criminal list who had never been convicted or only had misdemeanors. Blacks who had been pardoned by the Governor were still on the list.
FL is 11% Black, but I fail to see why you think that is relevant. 48% of Florida's prison population is also Black. So obviously, we would expect a much larger percent of the people taken off of the list to also be Black, yes?
While that 88% number sounds a little high, I don't know what percent of felons, mentally incompetent, etc. were on the voting rolls by race. And of those 8,000 that had not been convicted of even a misdemeanor, I still don't know the race of them. It could have been proportionate to the amount that were rightly taken off, which would suggest incompetence instead of conspiracy.
Just because a disparity exists doesn't by itself suggest any wrongdoing.
That is a crime that by itself won the Republicans the presidency in spite of garnering half a million fewer votes than Democrats.
That is irrelevant because we have an electoral college. I've never been one to support mob rule, anyway. If you do, that's your prerogative.
Hispanics are the swing vote in FL. You can piss off the Blacks because they were never going to vote GOP anyway but if a FL Republican pisses off Hispanics, particularly Miami Cubans who vote in blocks (the 1997 Mayoral election being a great example), Republicans lose Florida, period.
Eh, I'll give that one to you. You can't piss them off. But I would doubt that removing felons from the voting rolls would piss them off.
Let's ask ourselves honestly, if a third of all counties in GA or AZ had objected to a voting procedure as illegally disenfranchising thousands of white males, would Trump voters even care what the facts were? No. Fat Nazis would be scaling the walls of the Capitol with swastika flags and nooses in hand even as we.....oh, wait.
I don't see how Boomers taking selfies in the Capitol is relevant. I don't care what Trump voters think. Do people get pissed when elections don't go their way? The answer is quite obvious.
Heck, commies even riot over something as insignificant as a career criminal OD'ing on fentanyl.
