I miss the rule-of-law.
Yes, of course.
Blue cities and states will bankrupt themselves being laboratories of left-wing social experiments, desired by ideologues in Washington DC
They will be made whole in the next grand “budget deal,” “stimulus” or whatever spending opportunity comes about next
I can’t say what I really think.
given that shoplifting is now de facto legal I’d say reparations are already underway
And what happens to the country when other large cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, ect., join San Francisco in these reparation payments?
Giving every African in America $5 million bucks, new cars and new homes is going to go a long way to cull that herd. I imagine that is exactly what the Dung Beetle Party wants. They want to dump the Africans from their plantation and load it up with Hispanics. You want to destroy America permanently? Give every African living here $5 million dollars. Murders will skyrocket out of sight.
If we don’t stop the Marxist onslaught in Washington DC, in all blue states, and in all Dem run cities, those bastards WILL make us all pay. It will go into the federal tax code somehow. Every bad idea starts in CA and oozes out of the state like The Blob, eating everything in its path.
$33 trillion debt would become $200 trillion debt overnight and we’d all be spending Zimbabwe billion dollar notes.
Pelosi’s house for a $1? Me and shaniqua and our 10 kids will move in tomorrow!
This will be the new race war. Continue at your own peril.
If The Hill thinks this is such a bad thing maybe they should start supporting Donald Trump for a second term.
California has always been a soave free state. Why doee California have to pay reparations, and to whom?
Blacks have no problem with government checking everything about them ?
Reparations for slavery?
158 years after slavery ended we’re going to do reparations?
I know it’s a pain sometimes to hear politicians talk about a “national conversation” on some issue or other. But I would love to see a conversation about how people see the problems plaguing many black communities today, as somehow being the result of slavery. I would like to see, how do we justify paying reparations to people who were never slaves, paid by people who themselves did not own slaves.
“San Francisco’s proposed reparation plan, which would dole out $5 million to each Black resident.”
Do they have to prove they are descendants of slaves? Prove they have been harmed as a result of being 10x removed from their ancestors ..who may or MAY NOT have been slaves. Their were blacks who were not slaves even back then.
Who’s next? Chinese Americans ..Irish Americans ..transsexual Americans?
The whole idea behind reparations is to leave the plaintiff in a position of financial indifference relative to the presence of the event (slavery). This requires the counterfactual of measuring income with or without the event. I collected US black income data and compared it to what blacks would earn in their alternative employment in the absence of the event. That means gathering black income data from Guyana, The Republic of the Congo, and Senegal, as that's where most slaves came from. I then did a present value calculation for just over 150 years. In the end, each black in the US owes non-blacks slightly over $640,000. I'd really like to know the methodology behind their numbers.
Insanity, Delusional, Unsustainable, and Merely the Opening Demand.
As an aside, reparations would devastate an already disintegrating black population in America. Their culture has been pampered, enabled, and victimized by the racism of low expectations to the point at which it is, as a society, broken beyond repair.
Black Americans deserve more. They deserve the right to stand on their own two legs.
But when the Left sees an opportunity, don't get in their way.
Please note that this is an OPINION column published by the Hill, lest one thinks they have become enlightened to the nonsense of the left.
I have just always assumed that reparations cities never expected to pay for reparations themselves.
She is right. If these scams actually become law we all will be paying the tab. The article makes a clear case.