I live in a housing tract north of Los Angeles where the houses run $500,000. I bought mine years ago for $100,000 -- I certainly couldn't afford these.

Anyway a few years back when this was a hot topic I noticed that of the 5 houses surrounding me, 2 had black couples living in them. One had a Russian emigre.and I don't know about the other two. I considered the Hispanic people who were mowing their lawns (I mow my own) and that they would wind up paying taxes to provide reparations to the people who were living in the half million dollar houses they did the yard work for.

Indeed. It is called "projection". Makes any issue easily applied for whatever purpose you want, in this case project your guilt onto others, and make them pay. Just like impeachment.

I was arguing with a friend (who happens to be black) about reparations for decendentes of slaves and I said, "Fine, I'll buy the next round." After a chuckle and a knuckle bumps he said, "Well, another guy I know is really serious about it." So I said, "okay, since most slave holders were southern plantation owners. what if we paid him off in Confederate money?"

The point is that, due to the past, the present is what it is. Had slavery not happened the present would be different. Most all of our bodies would not have been born and those that would have been born would have developed different selves. Those who want reparations are asking to be paid for their existences which would never have happened without the evil of slavery. Of course some religious persons would say that what they term "souls" would be planted by a deity in other bodies as some kind of 'ghost in the machine',so that they would still exist.
Besides, we live with a Constitution which prohibits responsibility for what others do. It is the reverse of being responsible for harm to others, i.e., the harmed are not responsible to those who harm .
Fight slavery if you can but do not take responsibility for what you have not done. Therefore do not buy into reparations. And do not get yourself some slaves to pay for reparations with their tax money.

The idea of slavery and reparations is huge compared to history since there is a large, large body of history no one talks about. American Indians, whites, blacks (yes blacks did own slaves) aisan, Arabs, middle east groups, all have slaves. ISIS had Christians and women as slaves and slave markets just in the last few years.

Just support the Convention of States and have them add one, I am sure that would be a big debate, as it gets into taxes, subsidies and all the other redistribution programs.

Nope. The reality of liberals....looters...

You can't fix stupid.

Aha! So it is!

A moron who likes to pander, buy votes, and keep blacks suppressed as second class citizens by giving them lots of stuff. The worst enemies of Blacks are white liberals..

Sounds like Kalifornia doesn't it? However, we must remember that Illinois is home to Chicago and Obama.

It's Not a "Race"...it's JUST Color...a chemical of such minute quantity one could not see it on the head of a pin.

Think Dolphin for what possibly a different race of a conscious entity might differ from conscious humans.

Let Illinois go bankrupt over such a stupid law, the Dims will find out that their tax base erodes when people move out of the state. I'm even more dumbfounded the Dim House of Rep is even looking into this. The Dims know how to waste taxpayer monies.

I guess the whole "entitled" classification is just a matter of degree in our society at this time. I would say that blacks and gays are on top of the list with the highest percentage of entitlement because they are victims, followed by the elitist left people who entitled because of their superior nature, followed by the rest of the washington politicians to varying degrees. At the bottom of the list of entitled people would be the last group you mentioned of more individualistic persuasion.

I can only hope the drug gangs are there to "welcome" them.

Why can it not just be Americans? Why bring race into it? There are no blacks and whites involved with humans, just different skin tones from very white to very black. What is important is whether one is an individualist or a collectivist.
As for reparations, it is an idea from those who are ashamed to have been born. Slavery is one of the past happenings which most likely resulted in the existence of nearly all present living humans.
What is important, since we are born without minds (selves) and must discover and learn to produce our minds, is to live our lives learning and bettering the future. We all seem to have had come from humans who migrated from Africa.
The belief that some people are intitled to reparations does not stop with those now existing but all future generations since they too would have ancestors who existed due to slavery or any other large evil that happened in the past.

Zero sum: not quite, there will be the usual rake-off for admin, offices, uniforms, security, training, equality and diversity procedures, workshops in Acapulco and Hawaii. ..

This is UTTERLY ridiculous! Let's hope that non-African-Americans living there decide to "Identify" as African-Americans going forward so that they have to pay LITERALLY everyone.

Illinois? Shoot! A second before I clicked on the link, me dino was betting on a city in Kalifornia.
Glad I wasn't making a $ bet with someone else.
Hm, new thought. Why didn't me dino consider NY, NY with De Blaugh Zero running it?

Sssshhhh....don't give 'em any ideas

You mean entitled bastards like Al Gore jr or Chelsea or Hunter or Paul Pillosi jr or GWB or Bill Ayers or Soros or Mika or Henry Kissmyassinger or Jeffery Epstein or Kieth Ranniere or Prince Andrew or Fidel Trudeau or Matt Lauer or Harvey
Or maybe you are talking about Ben Carson or Candace Owens or Diamond and Silk , Herman Cain or Thomas Sowell or Larry Elder .

Sooooo.....at least half (if not more) of those paying the tax will be the ones getting the "reparations".
Sounds like a zero sum situation to me. Or is it unfair that ALL non black folksdon't get the same return.

Yup

Reparations for what? These peeps did not suffer anything: Slavery, Jim Crow Laws - etc... What moron thought this one up?

The blacks will love the impending switch from buying weed legally to going back to buying it from a drug dealer.