Posted on 05/13/2023 9:58:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the service of collecting on slavery reparations, an ultra-woke Denver city council member is floating a generous (with other people’s money) tax on white-owned businesses.
Racist taxation policy is Equity™, which is one of Our Sacred Values™ in Democracy™.
Obviously, taxing whitey is crucial because Denver has always been a notorious epicenter of White Supremacy™.
Via the New York Post:
A Denver councilwoman caused a stir when she declared that white-owned businesses should pay reparations.
Candi CdeBaca, a 37-year-old Democratic Socialist who is facing a run-off election in June, told a business forum Thursday that white-owned businesses should pay an additional race-based tax, which would be given in turn as reparations to minority-owned businesses.
“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources,” CdeBaca told the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, 9 News reported.
She said business improvement districts could levy the racial tax.
‘You could be collecting those extra taxes from white-led businesses all over the city and redistributing them to black and brown-owned businesses,” she said.
What does “capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources” even mean? Capitalism is an economic ideology that promotes free-market exchange with minimal state interference. It has nothing whatsoever to do with stealing land. If, as has happened throughout history, nominally capitalist states have sanctioned land theft, that is an entirely separate issue from the ideology of capitalism.
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We already have a “white” tax. We pay more than any other group as it is. We fund every black program on the planet.
Just say “Thank You” and STFU. Sick of hearing about it.
Being taxed based on the basis of race?
That has to be unconstitutional.
elect communist and nothing is unconstitional.
Just bracing you for the kind of argument you might hear..
how woudl she like it if the council floats a ‘white only hiring practice” and removed anyone who isn’t white? she’d no doubt rightfully proclaim it is racism to not include everyone- so why is she proposing white only tax payers? No room for racism- she needs to be fired-
Well, I goes as long as there is also a “darkies only” tax to pay for all the extra police and ems we need.
“Floats”=“its now law”
yep, time for a black tax, need to practice equity as the communist decree. you know collect as munch tax from the blacks as the whites pay, or reduce the white tax burden to what the black pay.
“The constitution calls blacks 3/5 of a person.”
A complete lie
I know..but when you bring up the constitution, this is what they will try to say.
Reparations minus the amount spent on the Great Society and following programs less the amount in 2023 dollars spent by the Union to fight the Civil War and free the slaves
African Americans,on that basis, may owe whites reparations.
They passed it? If so- this needs to go to SC- the left tried giving farm relief only to black folks, and it got struck down-
She just gave cover to the business that posted they were hiring only Boomers.
Typical liberal woman. Comes up with these feel good ideas and never considers the next level of detail.
kin of those 600,000+ who fought and died in the civil war should get reparations for ‘pain and suffering’ their families endured after the loss of their long lost loved ones-
Note to councilwoman Candi CdeBaca -
GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY.
YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE IN THE USA -
LET ALONE PARTICIPATE IN IT'S GOVERNANCE.
F.U., Candi - we don't need any racists in the United States!
GOODBYE.
And GOOD RIDDANCE to you.
You deserve everything you get.
-PJ
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