Posted on 06/12/2024 6:52:18 AM PDT by bitt
A California State Legislature committee has approved a bill that could allocate a staggering $800 billion for slavery reparations—a sum that is more than 2.5 times the state’s annual budget.
This decision comes from a state that historically never practiced slavery and will be paying individuals who themselves were never enslaved.
The reparations initiative stems from the recommendations of California’s Reparations Task Force, which convened for the first time in 2020. The task force, made up of eight black members and one Asian member, was established through Assembly Bill 3121.
According to the California Attorney General’s website, the committee’s purpose is threefold: “(1) to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans; (2) to recommend appropriate ways to educate the California public of the task force’s findings; and (3) to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Force’s findings.”
The task force ultimately voted in favor of recommendations that could include payments of a minimum of 360,000 to each eligible black resident in the state. As reported by the New York Post, this reparations proposal could potentially cost the state up to 800 billion — more than 2.5 times its annual budget.
On May 21, 2024, following a motion for reconsideration and a series of procedural votes, the bill was passed in the California State Senate, securing a vote of 30-7.
On Tuesday, the Assembly Judiciary Committee heard the bill. State Rep. Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, the only member to raise concerns, voiced her alarm.
“Economists, consultants from the task force reported the total amount could be as much as 800 billion. That’s two and a half times the size of our entire state budget. To pay for that, you’d need a major tax hike unlike anything this state has ever seen before,” Sanchez said.
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This may be the last gasp of the Democrats before they realize the black community is too expensive and start to windle down all the entitlements.
Forming a “task force” to look into California paying out billions for reparations doesn’t look like such a good idea now, does it Gov. Newsom?
Newsom has gone silent on the issue.
This is from over a year ago:
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) backed away from the idea of paying reparations to descendants of slaves, after a state panel he signed into law calculated the state was liable for hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Newsom well knows taxpayers, businesses and productive citizens are fleeing the state - and 10,000 fast food workers have been laid off after he signed a bill mandating $20 minimum wage.
I’m sure he assumes the feds will bail him out.
A California State Legislature committee
They will continue to vote Democrat, ≈ 65% for Asians, ≈ 64% for Hispanics in the state of California.
They'll be looking for their own reparations soon.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Blacks planning to give blacks BILLIONS ,LOL
They can make a bill, but where do they get that money?
Another leftist cluster flux idea. How will they distribute the reparations ‘fairly and equitably’? Some will claim they didn’t get their ‘fair share’ or got excluded. Some will steal their loot to justify getting slighted in the deal. To be a leftist to be a loser in mind, soul and spirit and to spread that disease to others.
And some in the black community wake up to the fact they been lead around with the dollar on a stick BS.
He won’t be governor by then will he?
“To pay for that, you’d need a major tax hike unlike anything this state has ever seen before,” Sanchez said.
She’s halfway there. It will also require a 100% cut in all state spending.
The goods news for the federal govt is it will rake in $300 Billion in income tax from California taxpayers.
EC
They need to completely drop this fairyland dream that anyone owes them anything from an imagined past. Who the heck is going to be willing give them the “reparations” they think they ought to receive? If the “reparations” are to come up for a vote, let anyone who would receive the juice be disqualified from voting on the issue.
To be honest, having an opportunity to earn one’s own living through productivity is the only reparation that anyone ought to have. Forv many others, that opportunity is not “free.”
and as they round the bend, Kalifornia regains the lead of the idiot cup.
A MASSIVE TAX HIKE TO PAY PEOPLE WHO NEVER PICKED COTTON IN A STATE THE NEVER HAD SLAVES.
COMPLETE SMOKE & MIRRORS.
Nope.
And he’ll have moved to Montana by then, where his wife owns a ranch and he often vacations.
This narcissist will never live in Montana.
The usual suspects will say it isn’t enough. You can’t ever satisfy professional looters, no matter how much groveling you do. They have to be treated the same way amateur looters are.
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