Posted on 12/02/2022 4:59:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
There’s no logical reason for California to make these payments, but it’s in the grip of virtue-signaling madness.
Next year, California is facing a $25 billion budget deficit, businesses are fleeing, and the big cities are swamped with seas of drug-addled homeless people. None of that has stopped the reparations committee that Governor Gavin Newsom convened from thinking big when it comes to reparations for Blacks in that state. The current proposal envisions giving each of California’s 2.5 million self-identified Black Americans $223,200 (totaling $559 Billion) for “housing discrimination.”
California has long had a problem when it comes to the whole reparations theory: It never had slavery. It’s true that a lot of Gold Rush money went to the Confederacy, but that was never California’s official policy. How can a state virtue signal if it wasn’t a slave state? The answer, it turns out, is to point to housing discrimination:
A reparations committee in California has suggested that descendants of slaves in the state could be compensated $223,200 each for ‘housing discrimination’.
The nine-member Reparations Task Force was formed by California Governor Gavin Newsom as part of the country’s largest ever effort to address reparations for slavery.
A focus of the California task force has been ‘housing discrimination’ - it has been estimated that it would cost around $569billion to compensate the 2.5 million Black Californians for setbacks between 1933 and 1977, according to the New York Times.
That is more than California’s $512.8billion expenditure in 2021 - which included funding for schools, hospitals, universities, highways, policing and corrections.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They should withhold the reparations from the salaries of state employees.
CA GOP just lets this happen, too. They’re nowhere.
Hey, if that’s what the tax paying voters of california want, who is to say otherwise ...
Like the article says — madness. Or willful self-destruction, deluded or deliberate. Or maybe a bit of both.
This is one of those situations where Newsom and other politicians know that no reparations will never happen but voice support of it to attract black votes.
Apparently, there are money trees at the governor’s mansion in Sacramento
When you see large sums of money like this being taken by the Dems you know one thing.....the Dem political system is about to grift taxpayers for YUGE amounts of kick back and graft.
Do not pay taxes, Then what will they do, enslave you like they did their black slaves historically?
RESIST!
If people who aren’t slaves can get money, then it makes perfect sense that people who never owned any aren’t obliged to pay.
Have you seen CA’s budget?
The money trees are in DC.
If you’ve never had money, and suddenly get a windfall, it’ll be gone in 1-2-3 years and you’ll be back where you started. It needs to come with financial investment advice. But it won’t.
The article made no mention of reparations deductions for individuals having white or Asian genes
Never happen..
If I was black, I guess it would be time to move to CA and claim my gimme-money.
Family 4 will getting close to a million bucks.
Have you seen CA’s budget?
The money trees are in DC
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Not too long ago they had a huge budget surplus, most of it from fed. Covid funds. Somewhere around $40B.?
If you think the flow of illegals streaming across the Southern border is bad...wait until black people across the nation hear Gavin’s handing out checks just for being black. Don’t stand in their way, folks...you’ll be trampled by the hoards invading California. California may very well tip over...
Guess where that came from.
Problem is, they will find a way to make all of us pay for it too.
Conservative publications have to stop capitalizing “black”.
Wait until the Mexicans in California start wondering where their “reparations” are. ROTFLMAO. This is a giant can of worms. Then there’s the Chinese. Heh Heh Heh.
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