They Cut Taxes On Wealth… Then Ask Why You Still Struggling
They just introduced to eliminate taxes on capital gains. That means if you make money from stocks, real estate, or selling assets, you pay less or nothing. Sounds good… until you follow the pattern. Let’s be clear. Capital gains is not money from work. It’s money from ownership. And historically, Black people were locked out of ownership. Go back to . Black families were denied loans and pushed into renting. Then the built the white middle class through homeownership, while Black veterans were largely excluded. By the time the passed, the wealth gap was already built. That’s the foundation. Now look at the policy. When you cut taxes on capital gains, you are rewarding people who already have assets. That’s not opinion, that’s math. And according to , the bottom 80% of Ohioans would see up to $42 a year, while the top 1% averages over $6,000. The top takes 61% of the benefit. The bottom 60% gets 3%. So what happens next? The state still needs money. Schools still need funding. Housing programs still need funding. Medicaid still needs funding. So the money gets made up somewhere else. Sales taxes go up. Fees go up. Services get cut. And who pays the most in sales tax? The people spending most of their income just to live. So now you got a system where wealth gets rewarded, and survival gets taxed. This isn’t new. Ohio has cut around $16 billion in taxes since 2005, with most of the benefit going to the top. But look at the outcomes. High eviction rates. Underfunded schools. Persistent poverty. Little movement in Black homeownership. That’s the paper trail. Past: Black communities blocked from building assets. Present: Policies reward assets over income. Result: The gap doesn’t close… it stretches. This is why the conversation isn’t Republican vs Democrat. It’s outcome vs promises. If a policy keeps rewarding ownership, and a group was historically denied ownership, that group will continue to be left out. Every time. That’s not accidental. That’s how the system is built. Track the policies. Track the outcomes. That’s what the Black Wall does. And y’all cool with this?


