Will the whites whose ancestors didn’t own slaves have to pay up? Will the blacks who didn’t have any ancestors who were slaves still get money? And what about descendants of whites who freed their slaves? Or the descendants of free blacks who owned other blacks? And what about folks today who are part black part white? Do they just pay reparations to themselves?
In the past politicians shied away from this issue because it would antagonize mainly white taxpayers; now the problem is that as whites diminish in numbers the people on the hook are increasingly non-white (Hispanic or Asian “replacement Americans”).
They often have their own issues with blacks, and will not accept this new “privilege tax” quietly.