Posted on 03/12/2021 5:00:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Oregon Democrats have introduced legislation that would give $123,000 in reparations to black Oregonians over the course of their lives.
According to a copy of the state Senate bill, the government will pay six figures to any person who can demonstrate that they are a descendant of American slaves and have “identified as African-American” on legal documents.
The text of the bill directs the state Department of Revenue to establish a reparations payment program to black Oregonians “who can demonstrate heritage in slavery” and provide documentation that they identify as “African-American” for at least 10 years. Recipients must reside in the state for at least two years before the application deadline of Dec. 31, 2022.
The payment would be an annuity where recipients would receive $123,000 paid out over the course of their life, plus interest.
The average black man has a lifespan of 75 years, so if a 30-year-old black man applies for the reparations program he would receive a yearly payment of approximately $2,733 per year from the Oregonian government. If the recipient receives a five percent interest rate on the reparations money, they could receive up to $2,870 per year.
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Both of them?
Really, they have nothing to lose. The elections are rigged so they can do whatever they want.
Will Obama etc have to pay because he possibly came from a tribe that rounded up people into slavery?
Sooo...how many black’s families were enslaved by Oregonians?
How many blacks lived in Oregon in 1865?? How many blacks will be moving to Oregon in the next 2 weeks?
How many chocolate bars made it to Oregon?
People who never owned slave paying “reparations” to people who never were slaves.
Meanwhile Nikes and iPhones are manufactured by current-day slaves.
Does Rachel Dolezal qualify? She’s spent 10 years identifying as African American.
Fast and loose with Other People’s Money.
As usual.
I identify as a slave and a black, er, African American. Even though I'm second generation American from Ireland. Black Irish. Working on my tan. Send the check.
Dane-Geld
A.D. 980-1016
Rudyard Kipling
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”
mark the first step in correcting decades of discrimination that some farmers say they have faced
No matter how they package it, carving out money to one group for claimed discrimination is outright reparations for an unproven discriminatory act. If banks discriminated with not granting farm loans, sue them for breaking the law, not every American taxpayer.
Gee, that’s about what the average welfare recipient receives per month.
welfare all their lives isn’t enough? Paging LBJ....
If blacks were being discriminated against by banks they would have a lower default rate than everybody else.
They have an astronomically higher default rate.
The reparations should be restricted to individuals who can prove that they had a slave ancestor living in Oregon before 1865.
You drank the Kool-Aid!
all I know is my SIL’s taxes will go up, up , up.....she the one with the inherited oil wells that’s been bragging to me for 40 yrs.....
Oh my! Each. I read that first as a chintzy total.
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