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Posted on 08/17/2004 6:10:29 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
PING!
maybe someone could send this to Alan Keyes
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Yep. You can bet your butt that, if Keyes were successful in his reparations scheme, every Hispanic in North America would suddenly claim he was a descendant of Santa Ana and should get a tax holiday because he/she suffered irreparable harm at San Jacinto!
Even some FReepers seem to feel that most Blacks are mired in poverty---therefore freeing them from paying Federal Income Tax constitutes a no-cost method of reparations.
This afternoon, Keyes released the following statement, clarifying his position:
I have consistently opposed the effort to extort monetary damages from the American people. As I have argued in the past, the great sacrifices involved in the Civil War represented the requital in blood and treasure for the terrible injustices involved in slavery. In this form the so called "reparations" movement represents an insult to the historic commitment that many Americans made to the end of slavery, which included the sacrifice of their lives.
I have also consistently maintained that the history of slavery, racial segregation and discrimination did real damage to black Americans, left real and persistent material wounds in need of healing.
In various ways through the generations since the end of slavery, America has tried to address this objective fact, but without real success. This was at least in part the rational for many elements of the Great Society programs of the sixties, and for the original and proper concept of affirmative action developed under Republican leadership during the Nixon years.
Unfortunately, the government-dominated approaches of the Great Society, which purported to heal and repair the legacy of historical damage, actually widened and deepened the wounds. They undermined the moral foundations of the black community and seriously corrupted the family structure and the incentives to work, savings, investment, and business ownership.
The idea I have often put forward to address this challenge involves a traditionally Republican, conservative and market-oriented approach: removing the tax burden from the black community for a generation or two in order to encourage business ownership, create jobs and support the development of strong economic foundations for working families.
This has the advantage of letting people help themselves, rather then pouring money into government bureaucracies that displace and discourage their own efforts. It takes no money from other citizens, while righting the historic imbalance that results from the truth that black slaves toiled for generations at a tax rate that was effectively 100 percent.
I have also made it clear that while I believe that the descendants of slaves would be helped by this period of tax relief, my firm goal and ultimate objective is to replace the income tax, and thereby free all Americans from this insidious form of tax slavery. It is well known that this is one of the key priorities of the Keyes campaign.
The statement does nothing to clarify anything -- he's still pandering to the Soul Patrol to get their vote. He has completely reversed his 2002 position, which, mind you is both in print and on his MSNBC television show.
I have lost quite a bit of respect for Keyes today.
Yes it sure would.
If they're mired in poverty, they don't pay income taxes.
Right now I'm listening to something infinately more entertaining and that's McGruder and Tavis Smiley getting shutdown by Bill Cosby.
Mind you, I, and a significant number of other blacks in America are not "mired in poverty."
Where is this?
Mr. Keyes.
Never take a knife to a gun fight.
Regards,
Mabelkitty
P.S. - Why doesn't Mr. Sowell run for office?
Laura Ingraham was just playing some clips. Oooooh boy I would have paid millions to be a fly on that greenroom wall.
I know that. I'm not either.
But I'm damn glad I'm not tax exempt because I'm Polish!
Well, you are...but only after you pay them.
(rimshot)
That's insane.
Maybe their only experience with business involves government employment (not meant to be a knock on fellow freepers).
The best organizations hire the best and the brightest. Period.
There is no caste system in America. If these people are "mired in poverty" than it is a (semi-)conscience decision they themselves have made, and continue to make. This nation is filled with successful men -- and women-- who have started out with little more than a shoe-string and a dream.
(Sigh) Of course they got there by "actin' white".
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