Posted on 03/29/2023 6:16:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations.
The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California’s $300 billion annual budget, and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average life span. Nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing Black businesses, two other harms the task force says the state perpetuated.
Financial redress is just one part of the package being considered. Other proposals include paying incarcerated inmates market value for their labor, establishing free wellness centers and planting more trees in Black communities, banning cash bail and adopting a K-12 Black studies curriculum.
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Go for it California! Show us the way!
Think how much cheaper a swift kick in the ass is for anyone who even thinks about getting free money like this.
It would be interesting to see a ‘reparations’ clock/$$ in action.
After all, every day they delay the amount goes UP (and up, and up, and up...)
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While they are overrun by drug addicts and crime, think about the time and money wasted on all their committee meetings even discussing this nonsense.
This is what the left does, absorb everyone in activities which are completely counter productive.
What the hell are they putting in the water in Cauliphonya? Those dumb bastards need to get over being born white. Real idiots.
Giving them a $1mm each is like giving a toddler a loaded handgun.
Get the freeloading swindlers a 10 dollar gift card from their favorite dollar store and call that good.
Zelensky and Ukraine will be really pissed they didn't get it.
This is what the left does, absorb everyone in activities which are completely counter productive.
They fly in ointment is that all this money will drive up the cost of everything in CA. Want your oil changed? $300, minimum.
Except the US will bail out California when they are broke and “too big to fail”.
If they keep promising blacks this fantasy, what happens when the fantasy never happens?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just send them home to Afrika?
I’m all for it. Sink California once and for all. Put it out of it’s misery.
I agree. Do it. Bankrupt the state. It’s the only way to show you truly CARE.
"Health disparities that have shortened their life span"?! Like what? Being shot by other blacks (that are enabled by the same leftists pushing this crap)? By being drug addicts, as a result of the utter dysfunction of their culture, and the hopelessness that they feel, thanks to the policies of the same leftists pushing this crap?
This is insane. It is also theft of taxpayer money.
I’m sorta like that too. But if California goes so does america at least economy.
I’m more afraid of what is going to happen if it does. Can you imagine the murders and crime this is going to cause. We ain’t seen nothing yet. Half of this money will automatically go to the Mexican drug cartels. This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard but with all of the Hispanics sneaking into America, it appears that the Dung Beetle party is wanting to cut down on the number of Africans they own. This will do it for sure.
We all know what will happen and I think that’s the plan.
Right, if this is actually passed, don’t even think the rest of us won’t be paying for it through federal taxes long with the feckless californians.
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