The government. Which pays out taxes leveled on the general population. Including African AMericans and other beneficiaries of reparations. And excludes the disproportionately white super rich who can structure their investments to avoid paying much (if any) taxes. Lovely. The more I hear about this idea the dumber I think it is.
Of course the fundamental objections are that it is totally utopian in the bad sense and would be utterly counterproductive. It will never happen this side of socialism (when it will not be necessary, as opposed to whatever policies would be useful to make sure that historically oppressed groups benefit equally with everyone from the new system), it pointlessly stirs up racial resentment by guilt-tripping the white working class and middle classes, and if it ever did happen, those groups and maybe others would say, OK, we're all square now and don't need to do anything more.
--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
No one is claiming that "white people" in
> general should pay. The
> assumption is that the government will be
> responsible for payment, whether
> that means individual payouts or something else.
> Plenty of governments have
> been responsible for paying reparations in the past.
>
>
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