See, that's the kicker. Alan Keyes never supported reparations. The media and his enemies twisted his words.
Reparations by definition are payments of funds from the Treasury.
He was asked about reparations, so he went into an academic discussion about how one might deal with it without making direct payments from the treasury to anybody, by killing the income tax.
And the beautiful thing is, the good Doctor favors freeing all Americans from that same slave tax in exactly the same manner.
Alan Keyes, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate who once referred to reparations as “an insult to our slave ancestors,” is now calling for a plan that would exempt the descendants of slaves from income taxes for at least a generation.
Tax exemption would give Blacks "a competitive edge in the labor market," because they would be cheaper to hire than federal tax-paying employee" and allow Blacks to be compensated "for all those years when your labor was being exploited," said Keyes, who is challenging Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate seat.
The ancestors of slaves would be precluded from paying federal taxes for a generation or two. The exemption would apply only to federal taxes, as opposed to state taxes, since slavery "was an egregious failure on the part of the federal establishment,” Keyes said.
http://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1663397%2C571
Somehow that sounds like just blacks would benefit, not "all Americans". And just how do you think the tax shortfall would be paid? Why, higher taxes, of course. For white people only.