The California Reparations Task Force wrapped up its two-year mission by sending its landmark report to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature, leaving it to elected officials to decide whether taxpayers should pay hundreds of billions in benefits...
Thursday, leaving it to elected officials to decide whether taxpayers should pay hundreds of billions in benefits to the Black descendants of slavery.
Even so, panelists rejected arguments that the proposals are financially unrealistic in a state grappling with a projected budget deficit of nearly $32 billion. “The job of the task force was not to implement anything. It was simply to recommend and to advise. It’s now up to the, which I’m part of, and the governor to implement, but you guys have to stay engaged,” he said.
But it erected discriminatory practices in housing, business, policing, education and the legal system that kept Black residents at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, according to the massive report. “Reparations for African Americans are appropriate; they are warranted; they are necessary; they are needed,” Mr. Bonta said., as I know it will, takes these determinations seriously and carefully and considers how to lift the proposals before them from the page to reality, into action,” he said.
Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen suggested that the governor and legislature could sidestep the political heat by placing a reparations proposal on the ballot for voters to decide.and lawmakers leave it up to voters to decide reparations’ fate? Again, a cynical political take: they know a majority of voters won’t sign off on the plan,” Mr. Whalen said in a May 18 op-ed.
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