{"id":2217519,"date":"2024-04-10T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reparations-texas-democrat-calls-to-exempt-black-people-from-paying-taxes\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:41:03","slug":"reparations-texas-democrat-calls-to-exempt-black-people-from-paying-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reparations-texas-democrat-calls-to-exempt-black-people-from-paying-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reparations: Texas Democrat calls to exempt black people from paying taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freparations-texas-democrat-calls-to-exempt-black-people-from-paying-taxes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217519&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) seemed to endorse the idea that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/african-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>black<\/a> Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/reparations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reparations<\/a> for the injustices of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>slavery<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with <em>The Black Lawyers\u2019 Podcast, <\/em>Crockett said she heard the idea of exempting taxes for black Americans from a celebrity. She said it \u201c[wasn\u2019t] necessarily a bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne 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,\u201d Crockett <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1777778499312365753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> the host J. Carter.<\/p>\n<p>However, Crockett points out limitations to the plan, such as some black Americans being too poor and already not paying taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do the no-tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and not paying taxes in the first place, it doesn\u2019t really\u2014\u201d Crockett said when Carter interrupted to suggest that people \u201cmay want those checks like they got from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>COVID<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crockett argues that reparations are necessary and that more studies on the matter and investments must be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many black folk, not only do you owe for the labor that was stolen and killed and all the other things, but the fact is we end up being so far behind,\u201d Crockett said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reparations task forces have been established in major cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, Missouri; Boston; and St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as the entire state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>California<\/a>. However, reparations have yet to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2957402\/tennessee-reparations-fight-pits-lawmakers-against-community-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>Washington Examiner <\/em><\/a>reported that the Tennessee state legislature will vote on Wednesday on whether or not to bar the allocations of funds to study or distribute reparations. The legislation is being led by Republicans who argue that reparations should be a federal issue, not a state or county one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addressing the issue at a national level, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) introduced a $14 trillion reparations bill to the House last year. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) seemed to endorse the idea that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations for the injustices of slavery.\u00a0 During an interview with The Black Lawyers\u2019 Podcast, Crockett said she heard the idea of exempting taxes for black Americans from a celebrity. She said it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2217522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP23031746692407-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP23031746692407-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}