What variables? What flawed premise? What injustices? What resentment? Class division exists now. I'm proposing taking some of the money we spend on empire and redirecting it to reparations for everyone until the damage is repaired.
Like socrates, i will first respond with a question.
What money? What damage? How will money repair anything?
You see, the flawed premise is simply that these less fortunate people somehow deserve the money of the taxpayers who have money. The flawed premise is that somehow money will repair something that may have never been commited by the person giving the money, and may never have been targeted at the person receiving the money. It is in no way my fault that i might happen to be of a family line that may have owned slaves (i doubt it, simply using a what-if). Why should I, if i have worked my way up through the torrent of government regulations, taxation, etc, have to give money to a stranger i never met and have never done anything to? The flawed premise is that it is somehow the government's money, when you forget government owns very little - maybe a few natural resources, but otherwise, all government wealth is taken from the people via taxation. Essentially what you are doing is forcing someone who has never commited any social or racial injustice to give money to someone who, more often than not, has never been the target of said racial or social injustice, or at least never to the degree that would require any sort of payment (maybe called nigger once or twice by a whitie).
Then you get into the whole gray area of "what is race"? Race as defined by government is vague and often a gray area. Sometimes, you can be a certain race if you have only 1/4th or even 1/16 of that so-called "race" in your blood, but even then, theres no way to prove that other than old birth records. My great grandfather's birth certificate said "nigra" on it. Perhaps his father was a slave. I demand reparations then because one of my ancestors may have been a slave because he was part black and thus has automatically been the target of racial injustice. Oh whats that you say? I'm obviously white (besides the fact that i have curlier hair than most black people), so i shouldnt get reparations. Well then here we go again, discriminating on the basis of skin color - i don't get reparations because im neither poor nor "black" by the definition of the state.
Injustices - do you honestly think everyone who deserves money will get money? Do you honestly think everyone who is taxed higher because they are wealthier will deserve that forced redistribution of wealth? What if their great grandparents were abolitionists? Do they then deserve that forced taking of their own hard earned money to give to some stranger they've never met? What about the different poor/black people who receive money? Who deserves more than others? What if someone just worked themselves out of poverty SOMEHOW even with the pressures of price inflation and heavy taxation in the system that are the real problem, and is now a lower middle class citizen.... does he deserve less money than the person who is a poor bum in the streets who was an alcoholic and got kicked out by his wife? Does that said bum deserve my payment of his medical bills because of the poor choices he made? Government has never proven to be very efficient before, why would reparations be any different? Half the money would get siphoned off by bureaucracy anyway. If you want to give a black person your own money, by all means do so by your own will, to placate your own ego. I gave a black bum in the street 3 bucks the other day to help him pay for lunch. He'll probably just buy alcohol with it, but thats ok, i still feel good about myself. But i did it of my own accord.
The problem facing most black people today is a culmination of socioeconmic conditions that have ALOT to do with big government. I'm from connecticut, and i lived 2 towns away from hartford, one of the worst school districts in the nation. THe schools are almost 100% black and latino. Whats the dealio?? Well i'd say the two biggest issues are that the schools suck for reasons that have nothing to do with race or the white man holding them down, and everything to do with bureaucracy, corruption, teachers unions (oh god i said it!), and the school system we have in America today on the whole. It also doesn't help that most of these kids probably deal with violence in some form every day. I know i sure wasn't holding them down, i went there to tutor at elementary and middle schools every week. But under your flawed premise, where every richer individual must pay up because of some "debt" to the black race, the individual is ignored. All my contributions and the time i put in with these kids, not because i felt like patronizing them or because i felt like i owed them anything, but because i genuinely cared, means nothing under a system where the collective is viewed as being above the individual in importance, and thus i would be taxed for reparations simply because i am in a higher income bracket, which may or may not be because I am white (id pick the latter).
In short, Ron would not support reparations because it perpetuates groupthink and racism in the form of groupthink, and hurts the individual taxpayer. Ron would support a utilitarian system where the government gets off EVERYONE'S shoulders so EVERYONE has an opportunity at a better life. Sound money is, of course, the best way to create a system where everyone is better off, and Ron seems to be the only candidate even hinting at this issue, much less championing it. There are alot more issues to decide between kucinich and Paul on, issues that are, you know, actuallly talked about. They are very different, evenif they are both honest. Kucinich is honest, sure, but his America would be an honest-to-God social democracy with no guns and free love and happy flower children everywhere, right? Look, kucinich is not a bad guy, but he falls far short of Ron Paul in reigning in big government. Kucinich may reign in the empire building, but he would dramatically increase the social spending at the cost of individual prosperity that Ron would seek to return to all people.
Besides, we already pay taxes for welfare. I think that is enough in the way of reparations.
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All I can say is if my money gets taken from me and given to some black person just because they are black, I will be pissed as all fucking hell. I am tired of my money being taken and given to people who don't deserve it because they did not work for it, I did.
Do you believe in the rights of people to pass their wealth on to their ancestors? If so, then their ancestors should also be able to receive the debt owed to them by past transgressions against their rights to their personal property. But as with any personal property transgression, it should only be paid by the offending party and THEIR ancestors. 
