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I Have Some Questions About The Democrats’ Reparations Plan
Townhall.com ^ | February 28. 2019 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 02/27/2019 10:52:32 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/27/2019 10:52:32 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

[Senator Willy Brown Side Piece and Senator Panders With Wolves]

LOL

I am definitely stealing that first one for sure.


2 posted on 02/27/2019 10:55:09 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Kaslin

Economic slavery for white people. Either slavery is wrong or it’s not; and once again Democrats are OK with it. Slavery in Africa is at an historic all time high. It thrives on world trade. Do these hypocrites want to stop it? Not if there isn’t anything in it for themselves.


3 posted on 02/27/2019 10:59:04 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: null and void; dfwgator

I’ll be waiting for Reparations III: A New Hope.

Hope it includes all the outtakes with Jesse and Al.

Kurt, you can use that. Let me know when you do. :)


4 posted on 02/27/2019 11:13:01 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Kaslin

So the 360,222 union soldiers that
gave their lives during the civil
war isn’t enough of a payment?
They freed 3.9 million, according to the 1860 Census, by July 1865. That’s about
11 slaves per soldier. The debt has been
paid.


5 posted on 02/27/2019 11:45:59 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: SaveFerris

I am descended from an Irish slave by the name of Jacob Shirey. He was bought out of a jail in Bristol England in 1775 and sold on the auction block in Baltimore Maryland in 1775. I have documentation and can prove this. I also have MANY documented dead or wounded Family members from South Carolina and Pennsylvania who died in battle trying to keep this country together and free the slaves. How much reparations do I get??

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/white-slavery


6 posted on 02/28/2019 12:04:58 AM PST by kennyboy509 (Ha! I kill me.)
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I dunno. I got some Cherokee in me and my ancestors are from Europe, I believe.

So I think I’m owed about $50 million dollars. After taxes.

No, make that $50 billion dollars. There, that will do it.


7 posted on 02/28/2019 12:18:56 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Let’s start from the 40 acres and a mule. The average cost of an acre of land is roughly $3,000 and a mule between $1,00 and 3,000 the current value. So that is roughly $122,000 in present value for each person who can verify they are a descendant of a slave before the Civil War. Now, we start deducting for costs related to the Civil War, the costs paid in various sundries since that time and it comes out that it is a negative balance when all things are added up. Examples would include race only clubs and schools, scholarships etc. If reparations are paid, then all legislation except granting of equal rights (which is what they should have) shall become null and void. Racism unless proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law shall not be invoked ever. It should become illegal to make a false accusation of racism including other terms like a white supremacist, white privilege, etc. This should be dealt with by a very strict punishment. Since the cost is actually beyond the actual monetary value afforded 40 acres and a mule, then they should be given nothing and put on equal footing with everyone else. /s


8 posted on 02/28/2019 12:20:59 AM PST by zaxtres
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To: kennyboy509
Are you black skinned..?

Maybe you line up and get something...

9 posted on 02/28/2019 12:31:43 AM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Kaslin

If reparations were written into a bill, Republicans should insist on its entire value be converted into Mutual Fund stock—held for a minimum of 15 years.


10 posted on 02/28/2019 1:07:24 AM PST by Does so (Build the Cpl Ronil Singh Memorial Wall...A Legal Immigrant...)
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Similar story along my family line, with a father and son who were indentured to the farm trade, and brought to Virginia in the 1680s era...to be sold. They both attained freedom in three years and became tobacco farmers themselves.

If you draw up the list....indentured slaves, the Chinese brought into California, Indians and so on....about a quarter of the nation will get some reparation situation.

Then you come to the amount. I think the Democrats idea is revolving around some check for $20,000 for each adult. Some of the people on the reparation line, are probably thinking more along the line of $100,000. I don’t see this politically coming to a happy ending.

The only reparation deal that I could laid on the table is some tax credit ‘bucket’ where you say 88-million Americans can be given $10,000 in tax credits which you could apply to your income level (lessening it) and thereby getting less tax on your income tax. This means you need to work, and you need to pay taxes...to get anything out of the deal. So for half of the millions in the reparations line, because they don’t pay anything much in taxes....they’d never exercise or use much of that bucket. You’d have to move ahead in life, to make use of it.


11 posted on 02/28/2019 1:34:44 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Does so

Is SJW?


12 posted on 02/28/2019 2:06:22 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Kaslin

With this the rats are trying to buy their way back to the black vote which I think they never lost. More money for lotto, liquor and drugs. If they legitimately used this money to dig themselves out of a hole they would not be eligible for it anymore, hence welcome to my lifestyle


13 posted on 02/28/2019 2:09:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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With this the rats are trying to buy their way back to the black vote which I think they never lost. More money for lotto, liquor and drugs. If they legitimately used this money to dig themselves out of a hole they would not be eligible for it anymore, hence welcome to my lifestyle


14 posted on 02/28/2019 2:09:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I watched a YouTube video where a black leader in South Africa was ranting the whites must not be allowed to leave; they’d “poison the land”. I guess that is how they explain Zimbabwe’s agricultural collapse; it wasn’t idle, ignorant party hacks getting prime farmland and neglecting it; the whites must have “poisoned the land”.

This reparations BS is to get what they can as the white population contracts; they are escaping into the next world while passing the wealth (such as it is) on to friends and family. More and more “black” areas are completely isolated than that of whites, with widening buffer zones of Asians and Hispanics filling the yawning gap between them - and as a result, it is difficult to tether the costs of black urban areas to a white tax base. Rather than “poisoning the land”, whites have abandoned it altogether - increasingly leaving behind the municipal, county, even state borders that would share their fruits of working with welfare populations - and blacks are responding with alarm.


15 posted on 02/28/2019 2:18:06 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The reparations mentality is similar to the socialism one, both in method and result. The idea is that whites are still enjoying wealth obtained from black slavery. But what will blacks do with the wealth they “take back”? Build more wealth or squander it on useless luxuries? Before long that money will disappear and they’ll be demanding more from an ever-shrinking feed trough. Eventually everyone will be dirt poor.


16 posted on 02/28/2019 2:26:39 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Kaslin

Schlichter Has become one of my top-tier favorite columnists, and this is a great example why.


17 posted on 02/28/2019 2:39:06 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Look at the last fifty years; foreigners are amazed at what blacks have already squandered with affirmative action policies.

The reparations mentality is more similar to national socialism; it is driving whites to extinction. Look at any elementary school population in most of the country today; few “Americans”...


18 posted on 02/28/2019 2:56:48 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kaslin

Absolutely brilliantly written and executed!


19 posted on 02/28/2019 3:04:33 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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(...) Now, Cornel, I have often heard blacks demanding reparations for slavery. All right. I agree. It is only fair. I will pay a half-million dollars to each of my slaves, and free them immediately. I am not sure how many I have, but will try to give you an estimate in even dozens. Further, I believe that all blacks are entitled to a similar amount for every year in which they were slaves.

However, I think you owe us royalties for the use of our civilization, which can be regarded as a sort of software. There should be a licensing fee. After all, every time you use a computer, or a door knob, you are using something invented by us. Every time you sharpen a pencil, or use one, or read or write, you infringe our copyright, so to speak. We have spent millennia coming up with things–literacy, soap, counting–and it is only fair that we receive recompense.

The accounting burden would be excessive if we tried to distribute royalties in too fine a granularity, such as three cents per use of a boom box or a Glock, so we should probably use a bundled approach–so much per year for use of the wheel, refrigerator, and television. The amount could be deducted first from reparations payments and then automatically from EFT cards. (...)

https://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-straight/

20 posted on 02/28/2019 3:29:53 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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