California is pushing forward with its bloated reparations plan
Zachary Faria
In a development that absolutely everyone could see coming, California’s plan to pay reparations to black residents has become more bloated and more confusing as it moves forward.
California’s reparations task force met in Oakland on Wednesday to discuss the reparations plan and, according to the Associated Press, the task force has acknowledged that “they have more questions than answers.” This is all after the task force already released a 500-page report about discrimination in California in June.
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The final report is not even due until next July, which helps because task force members are currently spending their time trying to put a precise dollar amount on discrimination (both real and imagined) in “government taking of property, devaluation of Black-owned businesses, housing discrimination and homelessness, mass incarceration and over-policing, and health.”
That’s right. California, which can’t figure out how to keep the lights on or build a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, will somehow figure out how much money discrimination is worth and which black people should be eligible for payment. And it is all going to come out of the paychecks and pockets of the rest of California’s taxpayers, most of whom had nothing to do with any of the discrimination that did (or didn’t) occur in the past.
California’s new pastime is to give away taxpayer money rather than reform the law to make things easier for residents. Instead of lowering the gas tax or lifting environmental regulations that have caused the state’s prices to soar past the national average, California elected to give people some of their money back as a “gas rebate.” The state is already starting a program to give money to pregnant black women in the name of “racial justice,” and San Francisco is giving $1,200 a month to transgender residents.
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California’s idea of justice, whether it be for reparations or anything else, is to take chunks out of the paychecks of hard-working residents through taxes and regulations that raise the cost of living, and then hand them back pennies on the dollar as a bribe to keep certain groups as committed Democratic voters. The reparations task force cannot solve or fix injustices (real or perceived) from the 1800s or the 1960s. It can only bribe voters.