Posted on 01/16/2023 9:04:49 PM PST by dennisw
A San Francisco panel studying reparations has proposed a one-time payment of $5 million to each black resident of the city deemed eligible as recompense for the “decades of harm they have experienced,” according to a report on Monday.
“A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population … and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,” the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said in a draft report issued last month, Fox News Digital reported.
The proposal could cost the city, which has a 2022-2023 budget of $14 billion, roughly $50 billion, the Daily Mail reported.
The committee also proposed wiping out all debts associated with educational, personal, credit card and payday loans for black households.
The 15-member panel was established by San Francisco supervisors in May 2021. A separate task force created by California’s legislature is also studying reparations.
The city group’s report says: “Reparation must be adequate, effective, prompt, and should be proportional to the gravity of the violations and the harm suffered.”
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Insanity.
This money would disappear like water into the sand. And the black community would be unchanged.
As long as it doesn’t come out of my tax dollars, have at it, San Francisco. You dumbasses.
I identify as black!
Forgiving $10,000 in student loan is called unconstitutional. Given away $5,000,000 is just fine
There are any black people left in San francisco.
This will be amazing theater.
Theater of the absurd.
Mayor Breed, please splash a cup of black coffee in your face right now.
Wake up! What do you think you’re doing, encouraging something as racist and impractical as reparations?
No good will come of this. Do you think all other racial groups are not going to want their “fair share” too?
All races have dealt with prejudice at one time or another. Don’t get pulled into this bottomless whirlpool, unless of course, your end goal really is to bankrupt your city and have all corporations move out. Is that what you want?
Awesome that they were smart enough to get out. Will leftists have to bus them in to give them the money? I’m all for this provided tht only leftists pay for it.
How can this be legal?
I identify as a blakk San Fransickian, but I’m willing to take only $4 million if you’ll skip the DNA test. :-)
White people that care for their lives best leave cities like SF and watch them die. If you want to stay, this is the theme song
“I don’t care about you” by Fear.
>> How can this be legal?
Well, if they pass it into law, and the goobernador signs it, it’ll be *legal*.
But NO WAY can it ever be *constitutional*.
Not quite - all the white people leave, the nouveau rich black people kill each other for a few years, then our tax dollars rebuild the city.
5 million is peanuts. Make it eleventy skadillion.
lol
I suppose their opening position is higher than what they would settle for. My opening position would be “get stuffed.”
The compromise? Twenty bucks for anyone who can prove they picked cotton under duress since 1950.
I still can’t see how it is legal to raid that amount from the taxpayers. It is not a ‘tax’ where it’ll be incremental and withheld (unless I’m not understanding how it will work). And the money will probably be taken from Federal funds which is taken from all of us.
Who will be left to pay for it after the I’m not gonna give away my stuff people flee the city leaving the gimmiestuffians behind? This is a Dr Seuss fable waiting to be written for some SF drag queen’s children’s story hour.
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