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NYC Council pass bill to create task force to study reparations for black residents City lawmakers passed a controversial bill Thursday to create a reparations task force in New York City — which could lead to proposals to spend billions in taxpayer money as compensation for slavery and racial injustice. The legislation was approved 41-8 before the full council on Thursday, with its sponsor, Council Member Farah Louis (D-Brooklyn), calling it a “monumental step” to pay back “injustices that have plagued our society for centuries.” “This is a matter of morality and justice, equality and equity,” Louis said.

New York’s City Council is set to vote Thursday to authorize a controversial a task force to study reparations for black residents — a move that could lead to a call for billions in tax payer spending, as it has in other cities. The city legislation would charge a nine-member task force with examining the “impact of slavery and past injustices for African Americans in New York City” and determining what, if any, monetary or nonmonetary reparations are necessary. Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R) told The Post he would leave the city before he paid reparations. “I’ll move before I’ll...

If the Left’s 2024 strategy is to divide and conquer, you’re on the hit list. Elected Democrats and their activist handlers are surging forward with plans to implement multi-billion-dollar slavery reparations bills first in blue states, then nationwide. The latest push came on Jan. 8, when socialist Rep. Cori Bush (D–MO) introduced her $14 trillion “Reparations NOW” bill, which has made its way from the fringe of the far Left to the Democratic Party plank in just a few years. While cynically bribing black voters ahead of the November presidential election is the obvious goal, Democrats are also stoking racial...

President Joe Biden will forgive $39 billion in student debt for 804,000 Americans - two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his $430 billion relief plan because it was unconstitutional. The president has continued his push to wipe billions in student debt, despite anger from taxpayers and Americans who have never been to college. The landmark Supreme Court decision dealt his plan a huge blow, but the White House has vowed to plow ahead to get widespread relief. Critics slammed the 'absurd' announcement and called it a 'slap in the face to taxpayers'. David Williams, President of the Taxpayers...

The challenger has made much of his assertion that Bush has squandered world sympathy in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2001, writes Tony Parkinson. President George Bush speaks to the American people in a folksy idiom. Self-evidently, this approach does not travel well. He also leads the superpower when it is engaged in a gruelling and harrowing campaign to confront the phenomenon of jihadist terrorism, one element of which involved a costly and contentious war in Iraq. Bush calls this the "hard work of history" - but, clearly, this agenda has tested the limits of international goodwill. According...