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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm all for paying higher taxes to provide healthcare for all, better schools, and free college for lower-income kids.

I worked in development for 10 years and huge cash transfers aren't the way to go. Teach a man to fish and all that.[/quote]

How about other forms of reparations?

Do you support the principle but not just handing out cash? 
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NP here.  The principle is abhorrent.  My parents and grandparents recieved Holocaust reparations from the German government.  That was for their suffering.  I would not accept reparations for me.  I did not suffer anything close to what they went through.

On the other hand, I do believe society has an obligation to assist people who are poor today.   Present conditions that keep them in poverty should be fixed.  They are entitled to a decent life and opportunities.  Cash is okay, but jobs at living wages is better.

Otherwise, we will be saying Oprah deserves "reparations," but a poor white who grew up in poverty deserves nothing.  [/quote]

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