The best way to reduce racial inequality: Fund schools with federal income tax and equal spending for all

Comment published on New York Times blog in response to magazine article by Nicole Hannah-Jones, “What is Owed?” June 24, 2020:

There is another thing besides reparations that would help enormously in creating more equality in America, though it might take a generation: Instead of the present system of funding local public schools through property taxes, which guarantees that children living in wealthier neighborhoods will get better schooling, institute equal funding, indexed for variations in local costs, for every school child in the nation, paid out of the federal income tax. (This will mean more money spent overall).

This would be a better system than busing, which at great inconvenience only places some black kids in otherwise mostly white schools. And it is a better solution than Affirmative Action, which also assumes inequality, and only tries to compensate for unequal public schooling, by taking away some spots at colleges and universities that might otherwise go to white or Asian students, and admitting black students with a handicap at the start line despite lower high school grades, test scores, or extracurricular "leadership" points.These band aid remedies may or may not be worth retaining, along changes to housing segregation that might result from financial reparations.

We should also have as national policy that whatever the income and wealth and other attributes of your parents and their household, if you are a child in America you can go to a public school with the same level of resources being spent on your schooling.

This, and ending the debt financing of college.