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To: TideGlider who wrote (267073)	3/2/2021 8:52:16 AM
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Biden Admin Takes First Step Towards Reparations; "We Don't Want To Wait For A Study" trendingpolitics.com /biden-admin-takes-first-step-towards-reparations-we-dont-want-to-wait-for-a-study/ Joe Biden is preparing to alienate roughly 87 percent of the country in his pursuit of a blatantly racist and likely unconstitutional policy of providing ‘reparations’ for at least some blacks. And yes, American taxpayers — none of whom owned slaves, was a slave, or even knew a slave — are going to foot the bill. Biden plans to pursue a program to provide free college tuition to any student who attends a historically black college, specifically as a form of “reparations,” The Daily Caller reported Monday. The outlet adds: President Joe Biden’s administration will move forward with policies beneficial to African-Americans as Congress considers creating a commission to study the merits of direct reparation payments, White House adviser Cedric Richmond told Axios in an interview. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Feb. 17 regarding legislation that would create the commission. But Biden — or Biden’s handlers — don’t want to wait for any commission recommendations. “If you start talking about free college tuition to [historically black colleges and universities] and you start talking about free community college in Title I and all of those things, I think that you are well on your way,” Richmond said when the subject turned to reparations, according to Axios. “We have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of color back and especially African-Americans,” he continued. “We have to do stuff now.” First of all, let’s be as crystal clear on this as we can be: There is no white-caused ‘systemic racism’ in America in 2021. None. That’s just a myth generated by the Marxist left to push punitive policies like, say, forcing today’s taxpayers to pay for the sins of Americans who lived 160 years ago. Were that not true, there won’t be any such thing as ‘historically black colleges’ to begin with. Nevertheless, Richmond told Axios that time is of the essence, that the Biden regime must “break down barriers” immediately. “We don’t want to wait on a study,” Richmond said. “We’re going to start acting now.” Translation: ‘We probably have less than two years to get this done before the GOP retakes one chamber or the other and thwarts our effort to foist this outrage on the country.’ Now, fake claims of systemic racism aside, there are other problems with this really bad idea: 1) It’s very likely not legal, based on current civil rights laws; and 2) it’s probably unconstitutional as well. Current federal civil rights statutes (Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act) prohibit discrimination based on race; what could be more discriminatory than providing free college for blacks (who make up about 13 percent of the population) but not whites, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, etc.? Using federal tax dollars to discriminate is doubly illegal and insulting. Furthermore, there is the Constitution as a hurdle. “Most forms of reparations would violate the Constitution as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court. It interprets the Constitution as usually forbidding racial handouts, even for historically disadvantaged groups,” the Foundation for Economic Education notes. Further, the high court has ruled that the “federal government is not supposed to give an entire racial group special treatment, or make payments to it, just because different members of that group were mistreated in the past. That is considered an unconstitutional racial preference.” *Help Us Take Down The Liberal Media With Our FREE News App!* Now, that could change if Biden manages to flip the current make-up of the Supreme Court from right-leaning to left-leaning, but that wouldn’t change the anticipated political fall out of this plan which, not so ironically, is itself blatantly racist. The facts are clear and the precedent are clear: Reparations are a terrible, likely illegal, idea.

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THANK ROT FACE PELOSI... Michigan National Guard Troops in DC Hospitalized After Democrat Run City Repeatedly Feeds Them Raw, Undercooked Meat and Meals With Metal Shavings

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After Bogus Records Uncovered Last Week, Nevada Secretly Updates Its Voter Roles (Outside of State Policies)

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SOMEBODY ROUGHED UP THE NITWIT TRAITOR. Mitt Romney Suffers a Black Eye and Stitches After Fall Over Weekend Knocked Him Unconscious

To: TideGlider who wrote (267073)	3/2/2021 11:32:03 AM
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If Lizzie Warren gets this passed and the Dems get their foot in the door to tax wealth, it will not stop with the "ultra rich." They always use that ploy which shows what SCUM they are because it plays on human envy. Democrat Lawmakers Put Forth Warren's Tax on Ultra-Rich Denitsa Tsekova Mon, March 1, 2021, 12:52 PM Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is teaming up with some Democrats as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to put forth the wealth tax she campaigned on as a Democratic presidential candidate to fight the rising inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic. "We have watched the wealth of the billionaire class in America increase by more than a trillion dollars over the last year," Warren said at a press conference on Monday. "A two-cent wealth tax, or just help level the playing field a little bit, and create the kind of revenue that would let us build back better as Joe Biden says." The legislation was introduced on Monday by Warren and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Brendan Boyle (D-PA). If implemented, Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax (UMT) would impose a 2% annual tax on net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion. For those making above $1 billion, the annual tax rate would be 3%. The legislation is expected to generate $3 trillion in tax revenue over 10 years by raising taxes on only 100,000 American families, according to an analysis by the University of California-Berkley. Democratic Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren directs a question toward Xavier Becerra during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Becerra's nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). (Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)More "Wealth at the top has boomed during the COVID crisis. Billionaires' wealth has literally exploded while many Americans struggle with job and income loss," Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, authors of the report, said in a statement on Monday. "The ultra-millionaire wealth tax is the most direct and powerful tool to curb growing wealth concentration in the U.S. and make sure the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share in taxes." Under Warren's proposal, America's billionaires would owe $114 billion in wealth tax for 2020, according to estimates by the Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies Project on Inequality (IPS). For instance, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos would pay $5.7 billion in wealth taxes for 2020 under the proposal, lowering his net worth from $191.2 billion to $185.5 billion, while Tesla's Elon Musk would pay $4.6 billion in 2020 wealth, reducing his net worth to $148.9 billion from $153.5 billion, the analysis found. Story continues