Posted on 03/20/2023 12:52:35 AM PDT by Libloather
Even here is one party rule CA, the government is not nearly as imperial as the federal government. Executive orders are not the magic wand they are for the president. Newsom will not do this. We’re i deficit and there are no vast pots of spare cash sitting around. Any such actions would be the immediate subject of a ballot measure.
There will be nothing more than nominal or symbolic reparations from the CA state government. Gathering sufficient signatures for a ballot measure automatically suspends the statute. I just don’t sense that the whites, Latinos, Asians, etc have a lot of enthusiasm for making a gift equal to three times the state’s annual budget
Where be mah bucks?
A wise man, your uncle.
OK Pay them.
And claw it back at their first arrest.
The Mexicans, who outnumber blacks in California three to one, will demand reparations for paying reparations to blacks that Mexicans never owned as slaves.
Article indicates the reparations study idea came up in the CA legislature as a result of the George Floyd riots in 2020. California being California, any reasonable plan proposal efforts are going to be highjacked by activists and jazzed up with bling. In this case, the reparations study group was packed with black liberal activists and academics. So the resulting recommendations are about what would be expected.
(To be frank, the San Francisco recommendations read more like starting amounts in a lawsuit negotiation than anything else.)
If California’s constitution is structured similarly to the U.S. Constitution, fiscal appropriation power rests with the legislature, not the executive. The governor probably has the power to redirect/realign already appropriated funds but not initiate new appropriations. One might look to the state legislature for sanity in this situation but, again, this is California and the legislature presently has and has had a Democrat supermajority for some time. Sacramento has been the source of a lot of “woke” dream legislation, so it’s not a far stretch of the imagination to expect them to work real hard at fulfilling this one as well.
Unless the California government has some secret gold mines, any “reparations” are going be raised through general taxes.
Once California voters (of all races) realize this, things may change.
Gavin needs to show that he cares—maybe he can pony up some free food and wine for those reparations recipients from the PlumpyJack family bidness.
If you look past the race-controversy trappings, “Reparations” are just another form of jackpot check like “stimulus” payments, supported by corrupt officials with chinese investments, or backed by supporters with chinese investments, primarily increasing purchase of china-made goods and weed while the value of US currency gets diluted further by the extra paper and account digits.
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