Nope, no social engineering here.
I see. 9-9-9 for me and 3-3-3 for blacks. Yeah, no reparations going on here, either.
You do realize, don't you, that the reason 999 is controversial -- from a Democrat and Michele Bachmann point of view (see my well-justified slam of Bachmann at #76) -- is that it taxes people who previously paid NO taxes? Zero taxes?
That most of these people were not taxpayers AT ALL?
That in fact, most of them get a check from the the rest of us every year called the Earned Income Tax Credit?
999 changes all that. Leading Dems and some GOPers with diarrhea of the mouth (see link above) to say "it hurts the poor the most."
I think your comment about reparations is in poor taste. But regardless, it's simply not well-founded. Making people pay something, when they were paying nothing, is not a new way to reward them.