Atheists object to subsidizing religion with tax dollars because it is it is a religion not because it is a subsidy. I realize that is a nuanced thinking.
At least we agree that if CA or SF did enact a reparations scheme, it’d be setting up a racial caste system.
I did. You didn't get it.
So who is on the hook for these race based payments?
Makes me wonder if we are in a caste system to subsidized industries such as the oil industry. They certainly pay lower tax rates than many citizens.
No, it isn't, though taxes are certainly a major part of all state budgets.
I definitely think we are.
And indeed they do. Which is why the state is looking at compensating the victims of the racial caste system it set up and maintained for almost a century.
They were made slaves due to their race, and only due to their race.
How is it that you can understand atheist objections to being taxed for group favoritism but not understand why others object to taxation for racial group favoritism?
Who do you believe is going to fund this reparations plan?
Who? No one living today.
I don't realize that at all. Because, of course, it isn't true. But it is true that the majority of the state's revenue comes from taxation.
I realize this takes nuanced thinking. So I will go slow.
What history book told you that lie? Next time you're in state, drop by and I will give you a tour of the local slave markets, known slave owning properties, and archival documents of human beings sold and transported through the state. You'll have to wear the prissy little cloth gloves, but you can touch the evidence with your own hands. Slavery in California was always aimed more so at the state's original inhabitants, but the importation of African slaves from back east was officially tolerated for several years and all but unregulated until shortly before the war.
Nope.
