Well, for a host of reasons — not least of which is John’s abidingly stupid, and falsely racist, assertions in this morning’s post — we will politely dissent from his claims.
He is wrong about reparations. It is working well here, with over 120 families now having received the aid authorized by a city council order.
That leaves about 320 families to go.
It is the county and city’s local tax, on legal weed — that generates the revenue to pay out these funds — now @ $25,000 per family.
The grant money must go into improving the family home, which must be inside our town. And the family must prove that they or their direct parents and/or grandparents lived in town (on or prior to 1969, and were African Americans) and that the current generations of the famil(ies) now live in the city — in property capable of being improved, by the $25,000 grant in aid.
[There is a separate low interest, not due until sale loan program (which I helped design) for double that amount if a budget, and architectural plans — for renovations is approved by the city, in the same dwelling — so… up to $75,000 in total funding. But the last $50,000 of it becomes a “due on sale” deferred lending.]
We as taxpayers have voted to improve our housing stock. It is that simple, son. And as a bonus — it has had the knock on effect of giving local women- and minority-owned construction contractors all sorts of new, high pay, guaranteed work — which they then re-spend in our shops and restaurants. [That’s the money-multiplier Keynesians all proved, in the 1960s bud.]
It works — so do take a seat, John. Or maybe you should seek reparations, for the actions at right, huh? Just a thought — can you prove it was “viewpoint discrimination”? The mind… boggles.
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