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            1. 1. Thinking about cigarillos, cigarette taxes, and how the history of the Reconstruction Era casts light on cases like #EricGarner's.
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            2. On the one hand, @AdamSerwer and others are right to note with outrage conservative commentary on #EricGarner as fruit of high taxes.
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          3. On the other hand, Reconstruction historians like Foner have shown how postwar Black Codes used regressive taxes to control black people.
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        4. In Radical Reconstruction, black political power managed to shift tax burden to white landholders, creating a progressive tax structure.
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      5. White supremacist "Redeemer" governments in 1880s & 1890s immediately shifted taxes & fines back onto the black poor as tools of control.
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    6. There's a parallel b/w the so-called "hog laws" that sentenced blacks to hard labor for "theft" & heavy policing for stolen cigarillos.
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      7. And likewise a parallel between regressive sales taxes in Redemption-era Black Codes & taxes that fall heaviest on disadvantaged.
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        8. "it is hard to get farther from the point than arguing the cause of Garner's death was cigarette taxes..." @AdamSerwer/540340745023291392
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          9. … UNLESS you add that state-sanctioned control of black Americans has historically often taken the form of things like cigarette taxes.
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