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Keyes has plans for reparations
Chicago Tribune ^ | 8/17/04 | Allison Benedikt and David Mendell

Posted on 08/17/2004 5:58:48 AM PDT by Aquinasfan

One day after their first meeting, U.S. Senate hopefuls Barack Obama and Alan Keyes were back on the campaign trail again Monday.

Speaking at a news conference at the Hotel InterContinental in Chicago, Republican Keyes added to his now familiar talking points his stance on slavery reparations.

Prompted by a reporter's question, Keyes gave a brief tutorial on Roman history and said that in regard to reparations for slavery, the U.S. should do what the Romans did: "When a city had been devastated [in the Roman empire], for a certain length of time--a generation or two--they exempted the damaged city from taxation."

Keyes proposed that for a generation or two, African-Americans of slave heritage should be exempted from federal taxes--federal because slavery "was an egregious failure on the part of the federal establishment." In calling for the tax relief, Keyes appeared to be reaching out to capture the black vote, something that may prove difficult to do, particularly after his unwelcome reception at the Bud Billiken Day Parade Saturday...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: apologistsforkeyes; atotalnutcase; flipflopalan; keyes; panderalan; pullsracecardagain; reparations; solomonsplitlibbaby; taxwhitesonly
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To: Right_Handed_Writer
"No taxes for slave descendants is still the beginning of no taxes."

So, you believe once we've eliminate taxes on blacks, that eliminating taxes on all will surely follow? This thread get's weirder by the minute.

421 posted on 08/17/2004 9:35:23 AM PDT by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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To: Right_Handed_Writer

I think you're spinning like a F6+ tornado.


422 posted on 08/17/2004 9:35:33 AM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Aquinasfan

If this is for real then I propose that white people also be given 'reparations' for the 'suffering' their ancestors endured due to the Federal excuse for war in regards to owning slaves and that all of us who contiue to suffer from sub-sonic 'rap music' in cars, indecipherable use of slang and the general cultural break down by those who promote the notion that 'diversity' somehow spells 'unity' should also get their share of 'reparations'.


423 posted on 08/17/2004 9:36:01 AM PDT by Lee Heggy (No good deed goes unpunished)
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To: cyborg
"Yeah but this idea is going over as well as the Bush amnesty plan."

That was just his idea to get them documented. IL is Kerry country. Bush can't afford to waste time there. Keyes is trying and giving it a shot. If he succeeds, so does Bush. Keyes isn't offering to give away anything. If IL gives him the Senate seat and he promotes this, he promotes low tax for everyone and the rat gravy train gets cut.

424 posted on 08/17/2004 9:36:06 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets

I hope Keyes knows what he is doing.


425 posted on 08/17/2004 9:36:48 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: Howlin
Well, since nobody can put a true definition on the word 'Conservative', I don't think anybody like a true conservative can or will ever exist. The reason being is of course, we all have differences in our conservative beliefs.

With that said, I did vote for Alan in the primaries thinking that he was more conservative than anyone else. Of course - the general was quite different. ;-)

426 posted on 08/17/2004 9:37:38 AM PDT by TomServo ("Meanwhile, the Midvale police visit his locker and find out why they call him 'Buzz'...")
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To: Aquinasfan

Now get this, Keyes says they don't have to file taxes.

Okay so that means that the 50 Million that were getting Welfare thru the guise of the EITC because they didn't earn squat or paid anything in would get ZERO. See they have to file to get their Big gobmet check.

SUCKERS!


427 posted on 08/17/2004 9:38:13 AM PDT by Area51 (RINO Hunter, Big Time)
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To: Trueblackman

All the black people I know pay taxes. I think you're correct to identify the problem more by ideology than race.

Our local "Tent City" isn't occupied or run by a group of black people. As far as I can tell, they're mostly white.


428 posted on 08/17/2004 9:38:35 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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To: Right_Handed_Writer; Non-Sequitur
I'm in Chicago, I heard the actual tape, Keyes voice, on the news. He most certainly put this bull in the china shop.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am to hear this.

I consider my$elf a $olid $upporter of Dr. Keyes and I know I can't agree with him on everything but I'm starting to take a second look at my position.

Believe me, that doesn't happen often!

429 posted on 08/17/2004 9:39:22 AM PDT by evad (You cannot start with a false premise and arrive at a valid conclusion)
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To: mhking; Smogger

True: The average income of blacks is lower than the majority of Americans.

True: Nearly half of all Americans pay little or NO income tax.

Conclusion: Since blacks earn LESS than the national median, the majority (50% +1) would fall in the group of Americans that pay little or no income tax.

I hold no ill will toward anyone who is in the lower 50% of income tax payers and have been in that class myself, however, it is an inherently biased system that uses class envy to build a voter base. Get rid of the entire income tax system and go to a NST.


430 posted on 08/17/2004 9:40:33 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Howlin
"I think you're spinning like a F6+ tornado. "

I'll take that as a compliment since I have a sick hobby of storm chasing!
431 posted on 08/17/2004 9:40:45 AM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer (Keyes is Making Sense, Obama is Making Excuses.)
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To: Lee Heggy

Okay freepers, pay attention. What Dr. Keyes is doing here is deleting an issue that the dem's have used in recent years to keep black people on the plantation.

It's a brilliant move.

Of course reparations in any form will never pass through congress. But by supprting it in this form, Keyes makes it pretty much a non-issue.


432 posted on 08/17/2004 9:41:37 AM PDT by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: Aquinasfan
Under Keyes' plan, African-Americans would still have to pay the Social Security tax, because "it's not a tax in the strict sense," said Keyes, calling it instead a payment to support a social insurance program.

Actually it is.

Keyes is desperate for support among blacks but this will turn off most of his non-black supporters. Again, I'm flabbergasted at the sorry state of democracy in general and the pseudo-opposition Republicans in particular that they could not come up with one legitimate local candidate for this race.

433 posted on 08/17/2004 9:41:54 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: Aquinasfan
If true - way to go, Alan!

I'm sure they'll spend it wisely.


435 posted on 08/17/2004 9:45:09 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Howlin

Well, apparently Keyes is the real Messiah, returned as foretold...


436 posted on 08/17/2004 9:45:17 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Real Men Like Bush)
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To: GetZarqawiNow
the pro-life Libertarian candidate.

Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Or is Jerry Kohn throwing a major Libertarian Party principle overboard?

437 posted on 08/17/2004 9:46:08 AM PDT by TigersEye (Are your parents Pro-Choice? I guess you got lucky!)
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To: Reagan Man

c#359


438 posted on 08/17/2004 9:47:25 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: TigersEye
"I take it you don't want them to reduce the Federal government?"

Your refusal to address the question and subsequent evasion by misrepresenting what was said is quite revealing.

439 posted on 08/17/2004 9:48:12 AM PDT by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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