Posted on 03/13/2023 2:41:50 AM PDT by Libloather
California, which never allowed slavery, is nonetheless considering giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Black residents in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery, raising practical questions about how a state already facing a massive budget deficit could swing such an expensive program.
The California Reparations Task Force, which was created by state legislation in 2020, is weighing a proposal to dole out just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S., putting the total cost of the program at about $640 billion.
"If California can admit its sins and change the narrative, then there is a way forward for states and cities across the nation," California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, who wrote the bill creating the task force when she served in the state assembly, said last week.
It's unclear, however, how California would pay for such an extensive project. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed the bill creating the task force and appointed most of its members, announced in January that the state faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year.
The figure represented a striking downturn from last year, when the state enjoyed a surplus of about $100 billion due to federal COVID relief and surging capital gains.
To make matters worse, the California Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO), a government agency that analyzes the budget for the state legislature, estimated in a subsequent report that Newsom's forecast undershot the mark by about $7 billion, thanks to about $10 billion less in tax revenues than expected.
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Screaming BS!
In America, California is leading the way to the Marxist dreamland. NY, Mass, and Illinois can't hold a candle.
Reparations is not about justice. It is about agitation and division.
If you think inflation is bad at the supermarket or the pump, consider what votes will soon cost in Kalifornia.
More theft by government.
Did anyone ever find out where Newsom recently disappeared to?
It is also about creating the ilusion of doing something by always talking about it.
This....is going to be........AWESOME!!!!!!
Total 100% pure and unadulterated bs.
As pointed out, California had nothing to do with slavery.
Has any other nation contemplated such nonsense? Has the Marxist house of equity,Venezuela? Couloombia? Working man’s Nicaragua?
Of course to any wannabe totalitarian like Lenin collapse/overthrow of 'the existing system', thus allowing them to usher in a totalitarian government that they head, is a really good thing. All communism is predicated on profound selfishness and hierarchy, NOT altruism, sharing and selflessness as clueless academic ignoramuses purport.
He calculates that black votes in the primary will carry him to the nomination over Biden, and he will improvise from there.
Cancun.
He is a real retard!
Thanks!
Do we believe it? :-)
And, in a utopian dreamworld, that might be true to some extent (though even then it robs people of their individuality). But in reality, it is a frikken disaster because humans are, even at their very best, corrupt by nature.
Any human in a leadership role succumbs to the call of greed.
BTW Trump is an exception to that call of greed because he is already wealthy.
I don’t. But that’s the story.
Did anyone see a picture of Shirley Weber? I don’t know how to insert pictures, so if anyone has the inclination to do it, I think we will see what is wrong here.
Buying Dem. votes.
Selling Dem. votes
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