printThe Real Villain of David Brooks' Parable
by kleinbl00
(From Jason O Gilbert)
Meanwhile, center-left thinkers like Reeves concentrate on combating the moral perfidies of the top 20 percent, rather than the 1 percent's power. They want to reform zoning to give more people access to good neighborhoods and schools, for instance, but they don't consider ending the linkage between school funding and local property taxes, which effectively yokes schools' fortunes to local neighborhood wealth. They want to kill a few upper-class tax giveaways, but they don't talk about returning to New Deal-era tax rates.