Posted on 04/10/2024 10:51:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations but then said it might not work because of the black people who are “not paying taxes in the first place.”
Crockett, who recently made headlines for perpetuating the debunked myth that U.S. border patrol officers “whipped” Haitian migrants, was giving an interview on “The Black Lawyers Podcast” when she brought up the idea.
“I don’t remember which celebrity, but it was actually a celebrity,” the progressive congresswoman recalled to host Jehan “J” Carter of the proposal she saw — apparently from an unnamed famous person.
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Does this include Rachel Dolezal?
In that case, I identify as Black.
“Kiss my a$$, I’m black.”
blacks are holding back until they get their lottery winnings (reparations).
she ever read the 16th amendment ?
I’m waiting for someone to sue, based on the 16th, those who claim “Universal income”
Most pay $663, then get job credits, plus 35% are on welfare or food stamps or Medicaid or all three.
They are, as a group, a massive tax burden.
You have to havea job first. Welfare benefits aren’t taxed to begin with.
What about the Earned Income tax credit that gives thousands away to folks with, or without chitlins, that may have a low paying job?
Correct.
56 percent of African American households pay no income taxes and make up 35% of welfare recipients (at a population of 17%).
They are a net tax burden.
This is what one gets with the loose tennis shoes bunch.
What about reparations for the victims of black violent crime?
Reparations are DEI , (Didn’t Earn It)
Fair dinkum!
This would help offset
the cost of their trips
to Mickey-D’s and $16.00
BigMacs.
Cut off all refunds.
IMO——THE “REPARATIONS” totals were paid since 19/60’s when WELFARE took over supporting the BLACKS.
All the BLACKS who have lived on welfare-—were NOT ‘descendants ‘ of slaves-—THEY all got decades of support.
NOT ONE PENNY MORE...
A few years back, a CPA did a calculation & said that a black woman with 3 kids got OVER $56,000 in support.
This was WAAAAAAY before BIDENOMICS
& the LOW HANGING pants crotch group.
Do the black slave owners have to pay taxes they were many of them?.
They need to pay EXTRA taxes to me .
Give us all the money back from the war on poverty then.
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