I notice Keyes has been bringing the issue of slavery up too much lately. He is trying to out Obama on the slavery issue as far as their ancestors are concerned and now this??? What about the issues? The important issues. Keyes needs to stick to the issues.
I think that Keyes is being pretty slick with this proposal. First, he wants to inspire some original thinking among the followers of the civil rights movement. Second, he wants to demonstrate that the people doing the most b*tching about slave reparations really have no idea what they are talking about, because when they total up the tax break it will be a net loss (not EITC). Finally, the size of the total size of the tax break would be small since lower income people pay little in the way of federal taxes to begin with.
This whole exercise is a sub rosa economics lesson disguised as a moral argument.