(June 24, 2020 at 12:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(June 24, 2020 at 12:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not to mention that reparations - if any - would, as you said, be paid by your government. It’s an ‘everybody knows’ thing that taxpayers don’t get to direct where that revenue goes, nor is the revenue apportioned based on the ethnicity of the people who paid in.The government (any government) is'nt a source of income.
Boru
It takes and redistributes.
So ultimately some taxpayer is going to foot the bill.
And don't say "everyone pays". If you are getting more than you are giving - you're being paid.
All claims to the contrary are smoke and mirrors.
In the era of deficit spending, that argument doesn’t work.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson