What the state usually does is get access to federal money through various means. In addition, when the state doesn't impose a specific tax, the cost of living just goes up, often by suddenly charging certain businesses some bizarre new fee....but not necessarily a tax.
Because lots of idiots live in California
There are millions of Black Americans who won't. In fact, they will be quite offended by the ridiculous injustice and bigoted implications of this proposal if it becomes law.
But I think you are confusing class culture with ethnic/race cultures. When people are discriminated against in a slew of different ways that force them into poverty, it isn't right to turn that around against them and say it is their lower class culture that is the problem with them.
Because the CA general assembly is considering the bill. They can not appropriate reparations for foreign States.
The term "Asian" also includes people from India, who have been enormously successful in the U.S., while the poorer Asians tend to be the Chinese in the various Chinatowns in cities across America. Is that a product of IQ or culture?
No doubt there is a provision for residents who have domiciled there for a certain length of time?
IQ is an interesting subject. The first indication of an Asian elevated IQ may have been when a Brit school teacher was posted to the Brit embassy in Korea. He took along one of the new IQ tests, Stanford Binet I believe. He administered it to the embassy students, who happened to include the children of Korean employees in the embassy. Need I say who scored highest on the test?
I got stories I’ve been told to kind of side-step that issue. Anytime large amounts of money are involved and being handed out, you will find deceit and fraud. I have found articles stating $100mil and $286mil in COVID money that was stolen.
What are the odds that the next generation will also want to collect more for the same nonsense?
Another consideration is: if so many people become unemployed due to AI, who's going to have money to buy the goods that power our economy?
Good idea. We could pay for it with a hefty tax on firearms.
And that list would grow exponentially... It points to one of the real problems with reparations. There are others, the least of which is where the money would come from. I suspect most of us could point to mistreatment of our ancestors in some way. Most of these wrongs were committed by people who are no longer living.
Sorry man, but if the govt is offering up $5million, every black person in America is taking it. In fact I will be searching my ancestors hoping for a drop of black blood. Nobody is passing up a free $5 million
Not when race is attached to the offer. I lived in a very predominantly black community until just recently, and have African ancestry. You don't know what you're talking about. That said, if $5-mil was offered to any race for some perceived injustice, of course there'd be takers; there are unprincipled people among all races.
