The suggestions coming out of California’s Reparations Task Force are so crazy that even Governor Gavin Newsom isn’t endorsing it.
While the state’s annual budget is under $300 billion, the Task Force just released a $800 billion reparations proposal that the state legislature will need to sign off on for it to be implemented. This came resulting from a two-year-long process which is the first state-level attempt to push reparations for slavery.
While it’s unclear how California’s overwhelmingly Democrat state legislature will vote on or modify the proposals, the Governor isn't supporting them in their current form.
According to the New York Post:
Those who qualify would be descendents of both enslaved and free black people who were in the U.S. before 1900 and live in California.
He called the task force’s findings a milestone in the effort to advance justice but he declined to endorse any specific recommendations by the task force while still praising its work, according to the publication.
Years ago California attempted a smaller “reparations” program for an estimated 600 people who were sterilized by California without their knowledge, with Newsom approving $4.5 million to pay them at least $15,000 each in restitution. But as is standard for progressive governance, the logistics of their own program were apparently too much for the state to manage. After two years, only 51 people received a payment, while 103 were denied, and 153 applications were still being processed. The Task Force’s new reparations plan is 177,777 times larger than this minor one the state couldn’t manage.
Also of note: California was entered into the union on September 9, 1850 as a free state.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George SorosDon't miss the Dan Bongino Show
