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Making the incarcerated work is not slavery

On Election Day, Bear Flag Republic voters confronted — along with referenda on increased bond funding for public schools and in-state colleges, the creation of a constitutional right to marriage, and an increase in the $16 per hour minimum wage — a proposal to eliminate so-called involuntary servitude, the California ...
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Learn more about how expensive and complications reparations would be

Three Questions That Probably Doom California’s Reparations Push

As California seriously debates the logic of paying reparations to black Americans, it is important to review the implausibility of a reparations plan. Although I would likely accept payment should money ever actually be offered (ungallant to refuse, really), reparations are a notably bad idea. As I noted in a ...
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Reparations – in California or Nationally – Will Bring Unnecessary Chaos

First, California was never a slave state, and was never in recent history a Jim Crow state. In fact, the Black population of California appears to be descended largely from Great Migration-era refugees who migrated there to escape historical Southern racism, and loved the place. Between 1910 and 1940 alone, ...
Business & Economics

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Here’s what California’s radical reparations plan will cost taxpayers

Much of the discussion surrounding the push for reparations in California, New York and cities like San Francisco center on the historical justifications for mass payouts. Yet, as the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras said, “Numbers rule the universe.” Reparations proponents in California are quick to dismiss criticisms over cost. ...
Business & Economics

Listen to a discussion on the cost of reparations in California on the John Carlson Show

With the introduction of its first set of reparations bills, the California legislature is officially considering the recommendations of the California Reparations Report from the state Reparations Task Force. Wayne Winegarden joins Phil Vandervort on the John Carlson Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI Seattle to discuss the estimated cost ...
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Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California

Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California Wayne Winegarden February 2024 With the introduction of its first set of reparations bills, the California legislature is officially considering the recommendations of the California Reparations Report from the state Reparations Task Force.1 Given these introductions, it is imperative to understand ...
California

Making the incarcerated work is not slavery

On Election Day, Bear Flag Republic voters confronted — along with referenda on increased bond funding for public schools and in-state colleges, the creation of a constitutional right to marriage, and an increase in the $16 per hour minimum wage — a proposal to eliminate so-called involuntary servitude, the California ...
California

Learn more about how expensive and complications reparations would be

Three Questions That Probably Doom California’s Reparations Push

As California seriously debates the logic of paying reparations to black Americans, it is important to review the implausibility of a reparations plan. Although I would likely accept payment should money ever actually be offered (ungallant to refuse, really), reparations are a notably bad idea. As I noted in a ...
Blog

Read the latest on California's push for reparations

Reparations – in California or Nationally – Will Bring Unnecessary Chaos

First, California was never a slave state, and was never in recent history a Jim Crow state. In fact, the Black population of California appears to be descended largely from Great Migration-era refugees who migrated there to escape historical Southern racism, and loved the place. Between 1910 and 1940 alone, ...
Business & Economics

Read the latest on California's reparations proposal

Here’s what California’s radical reparations plan will cost taxpayers

Much of the discussion surrounding the push for reparations in California, New York and cities like San Francisco center on the historical justifications for mass payouts. Yet, as the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras said, “Numbers rule the universe.” Reparations proponents in California are quick to dismiss criticisms over cost. ...
Business & Economics

Listen to a discussion on the cost of reparations in California on the John Carlson Show

With the introduction of its first set of reparations bills, the California legislature is officially considering the recommendations of the California Reparations Report from the state Reparations Task Force. Wayne Winegarden joins Phil Vandervort on the John Carlson Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI Seattle to discuss the estimated cost ...
Blog

Spending Watch

Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California

Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California Wayne Winegarden February 2024 With the introduction of its first set of reparations bills, the California legislature is officially considering the recommendations of the California Reparations Report from the state Reparations Task Force.1 Given these introductions, it is imperative to understand ...
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