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2024-04-11 Home Front: Politix

Bizarre moment Texas Democrat calls for black people to be exempt from paying taxes during reparations talk... before saying poor ones don't anyway

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [235 views ] Top

#1 Here's a proposal: everyone who is alive, and can prove they were a slave in America, gets exempt from taxes, 40 acres, and a mule.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-04-11 10:43|| 2024-04-11 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 An open borders advocate looking out for black people calls Gov Abbott insane.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-04-11 10:44|| 2024-04-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3

Coming from a family with White/Eur-Asia Indentured Slave/Service History (1894-1925) to Mill owners in the Mass.

WHY JUST BLACKS?

At the risk of sounding racist.
At some point this stupid Election year BS has to end.

How can ANY person... White, Asia or Black demand $$$$$ for what their GREAT-GREAT-GREAT Grand Parents indured, from a population that immigranted generations after slavery ended? In fact HAD NO PART IN OR WITH Slavery.

Especially given the percentages of certain groups have been more more than compensated with 5 generations of Gov. Assistance.

So while we still have Semi-"Elected" repersentatives:

How about a Total Tax Code Rewrite & Simplification, so that an avg. 7th grader can understand and do their own taxes with a Dollar Tree hand calculator?

Plus a cap on the total citizen paid taxes, from all sources, (Local, State, & Federal) to less than 20% of Income.

Force Governments to be leaner , not meaner and quit funneling taxpayer $$$$$$$ around.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-04-11 11:14|| 2024-04-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Demand reparations from the African tribes who sold them.

Posted by Deacon+Blues 2024-04-11 12:24|| 2024-04-11 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Reparation or repatriation?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-11 12:44|| 2024-04-11 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 So taxes takes my money from my pocket. Do go on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-04-11 12:54|| 2024-04-11 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 What she's saying is middle class and above blacks shouldn't have to pay tax. Such as her lawyerly self.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-04-11 14:32|| 2024-04-11 14:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's the deal, you want reparations, you forfeit citizenship. You take only your blood money and leave, no other assets. You may never return for any reason under penalty of summary execution.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-04-11 16:03|| 2024-04-11 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 A long, long time ago, a black syndicated newspaper columnist named William Raspberry wrote a piece about how his great-great-whatever-grandparents were brought to America as slaves and while it sucked for them, he was grateful that it allowed him to grow up in America instead of west Africa which was a bit of a shithole at the time. Anyone expressing such an opinion today would be crucified, but it struck high school student Me as a surprisingly realistic take on the matter.

A principle of tort law is that wrongs should be righted and the victim made whole. If a person feels victimized by their ancestors being removed from their ancestral homeland, then the proper thing to do is return them to Africa with a little walking-around money. As part of the deal, they are no longer an American citizen. Take any personal assets such as money earned or knowledge of a written language, but once gone, you can't come back. Bye!

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-11 17:06|| 2024-04-11 17:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I remember Raspberry, that was one of the few coherent logical columns he wrote via
Wa Po (IIRC)

Posted by Frank G 2024-04-11 18:22|| 2024-04-11 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 They should go hit up Beyonce. She White now.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-04-11 18:23|| 2024-04-11 18:23|| Front Page Top

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