Triangulation. Very un-Keyes.
What a clown. To think that I almost voted for him in the presidential primaries last time.
I like Alan Keyes. He is terrific. This concept of his will never fly....but it sounds good.
Keyes is using this as a precuser for tax cuts for all. It's a brillant strategy when you think about it, even if he loses the Senate race. The libs are falling all over this.
Makes my head throb jus thinking that this is the best the GOP could put against Obama.
The odd thing is, most blacks don't pay federal income tax because they are in the lower half where very little federal income tax is paid by anyone. In fact many people get money back as a result of the earned income tax credit. The big winners would be athletes and rap stars, who would save millions.
They are pretty much already exempt from income taxes, given that they tend to be at the lower level of the income spread and the lowest 1/2 of the income earners only pay 3.5% of the income taxes in this country.
The subject has been beaten to death here, but you have to give him credit here for sticking to his guns.
I didn't know he was so unstable.
Most black voters are not so dumb as to see that they have little if anything to benefit from this. All it does is disable our argument against reparations based on the greater principle of striving for a color blink society devoid of discrimination in any direction.
This will be seen as political opportunism on our part, and will be used as ammunition against us. Democrats will take the lead as the voice of reason and moderation in the working class.
Sowell is as wrong as anyone can be.
If the door is ever slightly opened on reparations, it will never close. After no income tax it would be "no, not healed yet, you owe us more..." - it would never end, the "wounds" would never "heal".
And I suppose I shouldn't have to pay taxes either, to make up for all the discrimination and prejudice experienced by my people--women. Ridiculous.
This is really going to play well downstate.
Asking the federal government for "slavery reparations" after the efforts made by the federal government to end slavery makes about as much sense as European Jews expecting compensation for the Holocaust from the allied troops who liberated the concentration camps.
If Keyes made the suggestion that blacks living in former slave states should be forgiven their taxes, there would at least be a little logic to this. It might prompt a second civil war, but the devil is always in the details...
Let me make this clear to Mr. Keyes and anybody else who's willing to listen - My white ancestors fought and died on battlefields from Pennsylvania to Georgia in a bloody struggle to free blacks from the bondage of slavery.
I'm still waiting for a single black person to express any gratitude for that sacrifice. And I'll be damned if I'll agree to have my tax money go to pay "slavery reparations" to the descendants of the slaves that my ancestors suffered so greatly in order to free.
Stop talking like just another "All I want is to live off white peoples' taxes" black politician, Alan. You have no idea how much damage you've done to your credibility on this issue...
Or himself.
Just out of curiousity, does Mr Keyes have a plan to determine who is descended from slaves and who is not?
Every time I think Keyes has potential, he starts talking like he went off his meds...
I guess setting up reservations and casinos is out of the question? (sarcasm)