The unity platform developed by Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders includes a commitment to support a commission that would “recommend” reparations.
The duo released a ‘progressive unity platform’ earlier this week – a list of recommendations for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) prior to the party platform being adopted at the convention next month.
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Tucked away in their proposals, under a section titled “Closing the Racial Wealth Gap,” is support for House Resolution 40, a piece of legislation resubmitted last year by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) which would create a ‘reparations commission.’
“Democrats commit to the important first step of supporting H.R. 40, which would establish a commission to examine how the legacy of 246 years of slavery and another century of Jim Crow segregation continues to impact the economic prospects of Black Americans today, and to
recommend remedies,” the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force writes.
Reparations. They’re not just having a conversation about them – they are actively looking into how to make it happen.
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This is just further proof that Biden is a card-carrying member of the Squad now. What once was thought to be a fringe element of the Democratic party is now the mainstream.
In fact, two members of the Squad in Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) have introduced a bill called the BREATHE Act, which also supports H.R. 40 and has even called for “direct payment” of reparations.
H.R. 40 currently has 136 co-sponsors, all of whom are Democrats.
It seeks to “establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery.”
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An apology and payment for something that no American alive today has experienced.
Tlaib and Pressley’s bill would not only pursue reparations, but would abolish police forces, open borders, and eliminate prisons.
Sen. John Kennedy on Rashida Tlaib/Ayanna Pressley bill to abolish police and close prisons
“It is clearly a serious effort to compete in the Woke Olympics. I would give it 9.7. The only way I know how to improve their bill is with the shredder.” pic.twitter.com/DhVbovacTo— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) July 8, 2020
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How Will They Pay For It?
Suffice it to say, Biden’s Squad administration will have absolutely no plan for how to pay reparations.
Or will they?
Marianne Williamson, a self-help author who ran against Biden on the Democratic ticket, previously proposed paying $500 billion in reparations to descendants of slavery.
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A major portion of her plan to pay that $500 billion was to repeal the Republican middle-class tax cuts.
Biden has already told donors of his plan to roll back President Trump’s tax cuts.
“I’m going to get rid of the bulk of Trump’s $2 trillion tax cut,” he announced adding, “and a lot of you may not like that but I’m going to close loopholes like capital gains and stepped-up basis.”
And while the President has reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, Biden vowed to crank it back up to 28%.
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It’s easy enough to put two and two together here. The money will be coming out of your pocket or from American businesses to fund reparations, payment for the sins of your ancestors.
A poll conducted in 2016 showed nearly seven in 10 Americans oppose paying reparations.
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It would be nice if the Political Insider utilized censors whose sensibilities were not so easily offended…and when they refuse you post they do not give you specifics. Just that the post was not aligned with their community standards….just what in hades does that mean…come on people get specific so those of us who choose to stay on this sight will know EXACTLY what is allowed and what isn’t. People who opine here are NOT babies with fragile sensibilities who are so easily offended that common everyday language is censored.
Most Europeans came to America after the civil war, Asians came and helped build the transcontinental railroads after the civil war, the Hispanics were here before slavery and weren’t involved. That leaves the Democrats that were responsible for the slavery to also be responsible for reparations. It is time that any charity that they devise be paid with their own money instead of stealing it out of our pockets.
Racism as a strategy will NEVER end in this country, because it’s too profitable for the race mongers, and race baiters. Just watch, if “reparations” are given, down the road, 5 years, or 20, whenever, there will be yet ANOTHER demand for “reparations”, since it worked the first time. And once the precedent is set, women will want one, gays will want one, and all other “categories” of “oppressed victims of America” will want their cut. It will NEVER end. Always, follow the money, for money is the ultimate power on this earth, unfortunately…
Well, so far, it seems like it’s being allowed, sadly…
reparations? what are they talking about? they’re wiping out our history. if we have no history, no President Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, no Christopher Columbus, no Jesus, then slavery never existed!!! no history – no slavery – no reparations. you can’t have it both ways.
Here’s my suggestion: regardless of who you are, if you are unhappy living here in America, hand in your citizenship papers and go live somewhere else. You see, in America, you have the FREEDOM TO LEAVE. No one is forcing you to stay here. In fact, we want you to be happy, so we don’t want you to stay here unless you love this country and want to do everything possible to make this a wonderful place to live and raise a family. One condition though, you are never allowed to return. But you cannot stay here and whine and try to destroy our country, because we will not allow that either.
It “wrought” destruction of the black family, the absence of the father, the violent gangs, high crime, disrespect for authority, single motherhood, and the list goes on…another leftist failure that only white leftists defend as successful, because they pushed this on the American people, who got stuck with the bill, not them, per se…
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They have already have received reparations. It was called the Great Society, and look what that wrought.