I am all for reparations to slaves paid by their slaveholders.
All former slaves please line up so we can get you your reparations.
I was thinking the same thing. Really easy to identify the ones to get the taxpayer money: 1860s enslaved people who are still alive.
What if they locate one man who was fast frozen in a river near the Canadian border and the ground shifted over him. Thawed out and revivified and alive for a few minutes. Court rules all the total reparation money goes to him. No one else. Government gets the money due to no will or living heirs.
My satire makes more sense than the preposterous government ideas.