“It’s only money! Just throw it away!”
Mathematical wizards have begun to question the soundless of San Francisco’s proposed payment of $5 million a head to “long-term black residents”… $5 million each as “reparations” for slavery which was abolished 158 years ago and never existed in California anyhow (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/28/report-no-math-behind-san-franciscos-5m-per-person-reparations-proposal/).
You don’t need to be any kind of wizard to see that this scheme, in addition to being a towering waste of money, is not only foolish, not only unjust, but downright evil. Making people pay penalties for acts performed by other people better than a century and a half ago–really?
And who has enough integrity not to trade it off for five million smackers? If it were being offered to you–in return for nothing at all!–would you say “no”?
It’s evil because it will corrupt people who might not have been corrupted otherwise.
Who knew that that was the role of government–to lead people into sloth and wickedness?
This is indeed a shameful epoch in our history. We’ll be lucky to survive it.
With the MMT (Modern Money Theory) taking place in US and around the world, what is $5 million dollars here and there?
For starters, this would be about twice the size of SF’s regular municipal budget.
The silly clots who are slavering for this money seem not to know that, historically, whenever large sums of money are made available to spend, prices soar into the stratosphere to accommodate the new money. And the recipients of the money are then left just as badly off as they were before, if not worse.
Oh, they all think they’re gonna be like the Beverly Hillbillies (“swimmin’ pools, movie stars”).