Posted on 08/19/2004 12:56:29 AM PDT by kattracks
Y'all were doing such a grand job, weren't you...
Give Keyes a chance.
The WBTS was not about slavery. It was about states' riights. While many people didn't own slaves, the social thought of the time allowed it to go on wholly support by the US government. I don't support reparations, but those are the facts.
Looks like he's blowing his chance. Candidate for a little over a week and he already has a bullet hole in one foot. What will next week bring?
Well, unless Keyes was asking the City Club of Chicago to write papers or otherwise debate this issue, it's an integral part of his campaign. See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1194545/posts
What is the percentage of blacks who pay income tax?
Since most blacks are in the middle class, a majority pay at least some income tax.
Technically, those "free state Americans gave their lives" to prevent other states who freely joined the union from peacefully seceding.
Then YOU pay them reparations. Y'all wanted slavery bad enough to rebel, now pay the piper.
On a positive note...
We will never have to pay reparations to the descendants of aborted babies.
It's legal, but usually frowned upon and not many do it. One good reason for this is that almost everyone who runs for high office either already holds an office (Like Kerry, Obama, and Bush) or are independently wealthy (like Jack Ryan or John Corzine).
In fact, part of the rational behind it being legal - and behind Keyes doing it - is that few "ordinary people" could afford to be away from their prime source of income for the time necessary to be elected.
Personally, I understand the negative political ramifications, but I see nothing wrong with it so long as the salary was not excessive. I suppose one could argue that $96,000 a year is excessive (depending on what your obligations were) but the fact of having a "salary" itself doesn't bother me at all.
God knows If I ever ran for anything I'D need one.
Actually, Keyes intent is to repair economic hardship - not to compensate directly for being slaves. The economic hardship didn't end in 1865.
It might still be a bad idea, but the rational is based in economics, not the morality of slavery.
No. The proposal is directly targeted to those who could PROVE slave ancestory.
Welll, I don't think you can go that far.
Thomas Sowell likes the Keyes candidacy, Horowitz does not.
Opinions vary.
Never can tell. In a nation where Jessie Ventura can be elected govorner....You can always say "stranger things have happened"
:D
We will never have to pay reparations to the descendants of aborted babies.
I knew there was a silver lining here somewhere...
Such an effort would be an impossible task filled with fraud.
The details of the reparations plan are moot. The truth is that no handout will be enough, and will merely encourage additional efforts to loot taxpayers.
Keyes should have offered 40 acres of Southern Illinois land and 1 mule instead of the tax-exemption. That would grab the attention of the Illinois voters.
Once again Front Page Magazine shows its shotty research. Keyes was running against Mikulski in 1992. As for Horowitz and Front Page Magazine, this isn't the first time, he's showed up bashing Keyes. THis goes back about 4 years when he invited the good Doctor to leave the party. He and I got in a major duel of words over his inaccurate assertions. I've not had any use for him since.
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