People Say Drug Prison Terms are Discriminatory. Aren't High Tax Rates Aslo Discriminatory?

Question

Liberals often say that drug laws end up forcing more blacks than whites behind prison bars even though it's up to the individual to break the law. They say that because more blacks decide to be drug pushers.

Aren't high tax rates also discriminatory since they tend to nail whites, who tend to have more money?

Aren't welfare programs discriminatory since a higher % of blacks are single moms?

Answer 1

As you need to do to make it seem as though you have a legitimate point, you leave out some important facts. For example, in many states, the penalties for possessing crack cocaine, which is more common among minorities, is higher than the penalty for possessing powder cocaine, which is more common among suburban and upper-class whites. There is no fair explanation for the disparity in the penalties, and the effect is certainly skewed along racial lines.

Answer 2

News flash: whites are not an oppressed minority.

Answer 3

Yea, but your great, great, great, great grandfather might or might not have known a guy that owned a slave.  So you owe them your money... a*****e.

Answer 4

Yes, it seems immoral but legal to do these kinds of things to whites.

Whites have been carrying more than their share of helping America for decades.  It's not fair.  But, sadly, it's legal.

Answer 5

When I'm making $300,000 a year, I will be happy to endure far more discrimination than what the rich slug parasites on society now bear.

Answer 6

You're right it's discrimination, but all "discrimination" is not the same.

Tax laws single out rich people and make them pay their debt to America. The rich benefit disproportionately from our military, police and fire departments, our banking system and regulated financial markets, and our roads and other infrastructure. Turn off the right wing propaganda for a while and think about how the rich get rich.

Answer 7

Yes. My heart bleeds for the rich white people. The sad, discriminated against rich white people.

Are you trying to make a point, or make me laugh?

Answer 8

the only reason I feel the US's drug laws are discriminatory, is because they tend to punish crimes dealing with some drugs, more severely than others.  Mandatory sentences for powder cocaine shouldn't be drastically lower than mandatory sentences for crack cocaine.  I also think that prescription drug abuse should receive harsher penalties.