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San Francisco's proposed reparations plan could cost city $100 billion: Report
Fox news ^ | 05/19/2023 | By Kristine Parks

Posted on 05/19/2023 4:21:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

As usual, click bait over “five million, a hundred million” - whatever.

Once the battle over principle is lost, we will descend into perpetual civil unrest.

After the first ONE DOLLAR is paid, justified by “whites owe blacks for making them how they are”, every election, every session of Congress, every city council meeting will be about the need for justice (Meaning, “more”), and, as usual, the pathetic GOP will frame the argument over practicalities like, “We can’t afford $100 million, how about five million to start?”

The only viable position is, “white people don’t owe you a dime”.


21 posted on 05/19/2023 5:01:17 PM PDT by Jim Noble (It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government)
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To: Lockbox

Only a cretin would think this is doable; just where would this amount of money come from?? Half the stores in downtown SFO have already closed, so there is no sales tax. No one works downtown so there is much less in the way of taxes from the restaurants. And many sensible people, of whom there are a few in SfO, have moved out of the city and telecommute. Not that I could care less if there is a dime for this ridiculous scheme and schemers.


22 posted on 05/19/2023 5:01:34 PM PDT by laconic
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To: ChicagoConservative27
And now a word from the head of the San Francisco reparations committee:


23 posted on 05/19/2023 5:04:47 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: mountainlion

I think so too.


24 posted on 05/19/2023 5:06:09 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: JennysCool
> And exactly how “black” do you have to be? <

Jimmy Kimmel has just applied on the basis of his old blackface routine.
And hey, why not?


25 posted on 05/19/2023 5:08:25 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: laconic
San Francisco’s Storefront Vacancy Tax is Now in Effect

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/san-francisco-s-storefront-vacancy-tax-5904102/

The purpose of the Vacancy Tax is to revitalize commercial corridors, alleviate long-term retail vacancies, and stabilize commercial rents. The “Findings and Purpose” section of the ordinance provides: “Vacant storefronts in otherwise vibrant neighborhood commercial districts degrade the urban environment and reduce the quality of life in those neighborhoods, leading to blight and crime, particularly when storefronts stay empty for extended periods of time.

Sadly true….. can’t earn a profit with homeless dropping a deuce outside the door, shoplifters stealing ever day and the police do NOTHING. But close the business and vacate the store front, then SF will tax you……. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

26 posted on 05/19/2023 5:13:33 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reparations were paid in 1861-1865 in blood sacrifice.

Over 700,000 dead
Tens of thousands gave arms, legs, eyes.

If they pay, the beggars will be back in six months for more, and you will never hear the end of it.

Rudyard Kipling said it best.

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.


27 posted on 05/19/2023 5:14:15 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ann Archy

“THIS is BOOB BAIT for the STUPID BLACK PEOPLE”

I absolutely don’t understand why the reparations push makes the news unless it’s what you say. If that’s the underlying reason it speaks poorly for the blacks.

Another thing: I read that California never had slaves.


28 posted on 05/19/2023 5:15:20 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: GMMC0987

If the beggars get the money someone will break out a pair of “bones” and the losers will be back begging for more.


29 posted on 05/19/2023 5:15:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: laconic

Dang cheapskates to the left — to the right. Time to get charitable to those in need. No limits ever.
Now what is the next pressing issue that needs intellectual rigor applied?


30 posted on 05/19/2023 5:16:07 PM PDT by whistleduck
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To: Leaning Right

From Wonder Bar with Al Jolson

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31 posted on 05/19/2023 5:19:58 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: cymbeline

Maybe Chinese, and Amerinds when Spain ruled. Do they get reparations?


32 posted on 05/19/2023 5:20:15 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberia. Look it up. This is where people that want reparations should go. I hear that it is a real african paradise.


33 posted on 05/19/2023 5:23:31 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: cymbeline

Because the people paying will be NON SLAVE OWNERS! PSTUPID!


34 posted on 05/19/2023 5:36:19 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m part Native American....my ancestors were here before any black people....Where is my money?


35 posted on 05/19/2023 5:42:21 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: Osage Orange

> I’m part Native American....my ancestors were here before any black people....Where is my money? <

Well, since you mentioned it…I’m of Hungarian descent. And the Ottoman Turks were very nasty to my ancestors. I have written the Turkish embassy, and demanded reparations. I have also written the UN. No response.

Perhaps Biden could quit sniffing young girls for a moment, and look into this.
It would be appreciated.


36 posted on 05/19/2023 5:48:25 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They'll be paid in Zimbabwe dollars, right?


37 posted on 05/19/2023 5:55:59 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
14th Amendment, Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

This section seems to forbid reparations, doesn't it? Live by the Constitution.

The question would be, if San Francisco does it on a CITY WIDE basis, would it be Constitutional? That's for the USSC to decide, but I think they'd say "NO".

38 posted on 05/19/2023 6:34:57 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

this is just to get the conversation going

it will get kicked up to fedgov

a bill has already been introduced

the republicans will block it

then they will have what really want

a campaign talking point

blacks could be millionaires except for those mean nasty republicans

this whole issue is because the black vote has been trending right

they want to stop the bleeding


39 posted on 05/19/2023 6:42:45 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: mountainlion

and blame it on the republicans


40 posted on 05/19/2023 6:44:06 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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