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Democratic congresswoman suggests black people be exempt from paying taxes as form of reparations.
Jasmine Crockett, a freshman representative from Texas, said she heard a celebrity — though she could not remember which one — propose making black people tax-exempt, and thought, “I don’t know that that’s … necessarily a bad idea,” she recounted in an interview with “The Black Lawyers Podcast” last week.
“One of the things they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time because … that puts money back in your pocket,” Crockett told host J. Carter.
Earlier in the interview, Crockett argued there needs to be consistency between the federal and state governments on reparations, because if there is not, “everybody’s gonna run to whichever state and be like, ‘Yo, I need mine.’”