Rep. Jasmine Crockett
C-SPAN
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) stated that black Americans should not be required to pay any taxes as a form of reparations.
Bad idea
NBC News
“Just this past week I saw, I don’t remember which celebrity but it was actually a celebrity and I was like, ‘I don’t know that’s not necessarily a bad idea.”
Pay taxes
NBC News
“But I’d have to think through it a lot.’ One of the things that they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes,” she said.
Back in your pocket
NBC News
“For a certain amount of time. Because then again that puts money back in your pocket, but at the same time It may not be as objectionable to some people about actually giving out dollars.”
Stolen and killed
NBC News
“Not only do you owe for the labor that was stolen and killed and all the other things, right? But the fact is like we end up being so far behind Right, and so it’s like if you do the no tax thing, for people that are already say struggling and aren’t really paying taxes in the first place, it doesn’t really help,” the Texas congresswoman continued.
Checks
MSNBC
“They may want those checks like they got,” she added.
Polarizing language
MSNBC
Crockett is familiar with using polarizing language. In a House Oversight Committee hearing last year, the congresswoman labeled Florida and her native Texas as “deplorable states.”
Nonsense bills
ABC
“The Heritage Foundation loves Texas. Ooh, they love Texas. They always sending us some nonsense bills that somehow set this country on the wrong trajectory,”
Every deplorable state
ABC
Crockett said. “They send them to Texas, they send them to Florida. Every deplorable state that we can think about, they usually coming out of y’all’s think tank.”
Billy
April 12, 2024 at 10:36 pm
If that is the case then Native Americans should not have to pay taxes as well as the descendants of indentured servants should be included . HOGWASH !!! History is the past – slavery is over and has been for 150 years , who is going to pay for what their ancestors did to people 200 years ago ? Are we going to double the taxes on people that supported the crown in 1776 ? The first Black slaves in this country were bought in by Black sea captains and sold to a Black man in Va – look it up . People need to get a grip .