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Thread: Who does America owe reparations
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06-28-2020, 12:08 PM #13Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: Who does America owe reparations
That's a sensible take. One way to look at it is a punitive damages reward for psychological suffering as a result of government wrong doing, in this case inaction.
I can see that sort of avenue, legal action in the form of a class action lawsuit, being more likely to have success than a legislative one.
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06-28-2020, 12:12 PM #14
Re: Who does America owe reparations
Those people of that era that are still alive were directly effected by an illegal act divided by our government. My mom is 66 and still can remember sitting in the back of the bus drinking in separate water fountains and being told you could go places because you were black
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06-28-2020, 12:15 PM #15Veteran Poster
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Re: Who does America owe reparations
This is what I was saying the other day. The average black family is probably getting about $40-50k per year from the gov. In the form of free/ discounted housing, food, transportation. Phones, utilities, and cash
So to run the numbers. If all blacks don’t have to pay. And they are about 15% of the population. That means the other 85% have to come up with 14 trillion. My rough numbers are about $55k per person. My wife and two kids would have to kick in $220k. For something I have nothing to do with.
It ain’t gonna happen.
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06-28-2020, 12:16 PM #16Veteran Poster
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06-28-2020, 12:18 PM #17
Re: Who does America owe reparations
Same place our stimulus magically came from
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06-28-2020, 12:19 PM #19
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06-28-2020, 12:20 PM #20Hall Of Fame Poster
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I agree, that's crazy. It's just crazy that we are not that far removed from that. I was born in 66 and don't remember any of that. We were one of the first generations that did not see it directly. I remember my older brother telling me about when they integrated the pool we attended in Calverton my Dad and Mom in a shouting match with members who were trying to block black people from entering.
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06-28-2020, 12:30 PM #22Veteran Poster
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06-28-2020, 12:33 PM #23
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06-28-2020, 12:39 PM #24
Re: Who does America owe reparations
Quite honestly the real answer is either thin air, or a loan from China we never plan to pay back.
Government spending has only about half to do with taxes at this point, the rest comes from one of the sources I pointed to.
This Covid pandemic will cost about $10T to the fed government and my guess is that taxpayers will pay money of that(except through inflation).
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