The US currently spends $1.12 Trillion per year on welfare and associated means-tested benefits. That's $1120 Billion. The average benefit per recipient is about $20,000 per year.
If you take the "reparations" program offered by the US, you first must sign an acknowledgement that you will NEVER again be eligible for ANY means-tested benefits, federal or federally-subsidized state benefits. No AFDC (welfare/food stamps), no government housing, no medicaid, no preferential hiring, no WIC. Not. One. Dime. For the rest of your life.
So, assuming 50% of those eligible are on government assistance, that means we are spending $400 Billion to avoid spending $400 Billion. AND, the problem goes away in 30 years instead of recurring.
I'm all for it! Now wait, hear me out.
The US currently spends $1.12 Trillion per year on welfare and associated means-tested benefits. That's $1120 Billion. The average benefit per recipient is about $20,000 per year.
If you take the "reparations" program offered by the US, you first must sign an acknowledgement that you will NEVER again be eligible for ANY means-tested benefits, federal or federally-subsidized state benefits. No AFDC (welfare/food stamps), no government housing, no medicaid, no preferential hiring, no WIC. Not. One. Dime. For the rest of your life.
So, assuming 50% of those eligible are on government assistance, that means we are spending $400 Billion to avoid spending $400 Billion. AND, the problem goes away in 30 years instead of recurring.