It must be mandatory for Dems to be mind-bogglingly stupid, as well as liars.
Government involvement in cannabis guarantees a robust black market.
What a terrific idea!
Will the Somalis in Minnesota and Maine qualify for reparations?If not, why not? How would you determine who qualifies, and who does not?
I don't remember slavery being a big issue in Evanston.
The legal challenges to a town providing “slave reparations” should keep this town’s attorneys busy for decades. And its taxpayers get to foot the bill - no one will be getting any payments besides the lawyers.
That'll be enough to buy everyone a pair of work gloves...Bewaahahaha
Evanston has about 74,000 residents, of whom about 18%, about 13,000 are black.
If this tax generates $500,000 per year, that would be about $38 per year for each black resident.
I can’t help but wonder, what sorts of “investments in black Evanston”, the councilman was thinking of. Public housing? Midnight basketball? Gang abatement programs of some sort?
heh didn’t know illinois was a slave state
My sister lives in Evanston. Alice’s Wonderland makes more sense. For example, a group of girls in my niece’s high school class succeeded in getting out of swimming class in PE by claiming they identified as cats.
How about a tax on criminal conduct, imposed on the basis of race and the incidence of criminality? Or a welfare recapture tax, also imposed by race? As odious as these would be, at least they would be assessed based on current circumstances instead of those of more than a hundred years ago.
Reparations should be limited to those that have provably 3/5 pure negro blood. Too much miscegenation should be disqualifying.</s>
Cut out the middleman and just give the marijuana to the city’s black community
This is not reparations at all. It is “walking around money” for their vote. These dems are really sick people.
Evanston=Chicago.....Figures.
Median family income is $102K and yet 18% black. Make that math work...
One day even white liberals will stop feeling guilty.
This is a joke. Isn’t it?
Good idea because I won’t be paying of the tax!
We are talking about Jan Schakowsky’s district. Her husband (a bank robber) is a founding member of ANTIFA. There is no more liberal town in America.
The idea here is that they get to sell weed to black youth by telling people that they are giving black reparations. There won’t be any reparations. But there will be weed for the students of Evanston High School and Northwestern University. Of course the students will still get their weed from their current dealers because the stores charge way to much. Keep watching this story it gets weirder every week.
The marijuana tax will be “invested in the community it unfairly policed and damaged,” Simmons added.
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Hmmm,... why not simply a total cessation of policing in those communities?