The left’s obsession with reparations continued this week, as San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie signed a bill that would pay some people in the city up to $5 million, while acknowledging that the money to make these payments doesn’t exist.
What a perfect metaphor for progressive governance.
The New York Post reports:
San Fran mayor signs bill that could give black residents $5M each — but admits city is too broke to paySan Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed a questionable bill to create a reparations fund for black residents — but acknowledged the city is too broke to pay, sparking a swift backlash from critics who call the plan blatantly illegal.The bill, which was passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors earlier this month, creates a fund to accept private or public money for a controversial reparations plan that calls for cash payouts of $5 million each to eligible black residents, debt forgiveness, 250 years of tax abatements, and income subsidies.“We are not allocating money to this fund — with a historic $1 billion budget deficit, we are going to spend our money on making the city safer and cleaner,” said Lurie in a statement.Still, critics have called the reparations plan unlawful “virtue signaling” even if private dollars are used.Racial preferences in government programs are banned under the constitution, according to Andrew Quinio, attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation.“The ordinance has a very explicit racially discriminatory purpose,” he said.
Here’s a video report from FOX News:
More from the Daily Mail:
The ordinance establishes a reparations fund, as recommended by the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC) in its 2023 report.Per the 2023 report, every eligible African-American adult in San Francisco should be handed a $5 million lump sum to ‘compensate the affected population for the decades of harm that they have experienced.’ Approximately 50,000 black people live in San Francisco, and the qualifying requirements remain unclear.While this effort has captured the most attention – and sparked the most controversy – the AARAC rattled off more than 100 suggestions, including debt relief, guaranteed annual income of $97,000, debt forgiveness and city-funded homes for black people.In 2023, the conservative public policy think-tank the Hoover Institution said the plan would cost each non-African American household in the city about $600,000 in tax dollars.
If this makes sense to you, you might be a progressive.
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