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ZMythos posted...

pls posted...

Would reparations require a tax on people who didn't own slaves?

Boy howdy if this aint a loaded question.

It's a simple yes or no question. Will people who didn't own slaves have to pay higher taxes in order to pay reparations? How much in reparations?

And how would you deal with em-privileging millions of people via giant cash infusions? Would you raise taxes on them? For example, will the reparations be $50,000 per person? $100,000? That kind of cash would create a new class of people with an immense head start in life. So how do you prevent it from being unfair to the tens of millions of whites who are poor? Or the tens of millions of eastern European and Irish who in the last 70-100 years were discriminated against, not considered white, prevented from accessing good schools and good neighborhoods, due to the perception of overimmigration?

It really seems like reparations is not a simple issue and the time for a cash infusion to slavery victims has long since passed. Imo a better approach would be good universal programs like Medicare For All, a jobs guarantee where you can work a great job in the renewables sector after we pass a Green New Deal, and a funded Social Security retirement, etc.
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