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Reparations: A Financially Unrealistic Proposal That Will Bankrupt California
Spending Watch | February 20, 2024 | Wayne Winegarden

According to the U.S. Census, there are 2.5 million “black or African Americans” currently living in California. CalMatters estimates that 80 percent of the current black or African American residents would be eligible for reparations. Further, based on the California Reparations Report, CalMatters estimates that reparations should pay $1,381,198 to each eligible person, which does not even include estimates for the unjust property taking issues that the Commission could not estimate due to data constraints. Paying 2 million people $1.4 million each creates a $2.8 trillion reparations bill.

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Golden State May Learn Single-Payer Mania Has Hefty Price
Newsmax | Sally Pipes | February 21, 2024

Known as the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act ([link removed]) , AB 2200 seeks to ban private health insurance and enroll all state residents — including those currently covered by Medicare and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program — in a single government health plan dubbed “CalCare.”

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Car-Less Cities Campaign Is The Latest Paternalistic Fad
Free Cities Center | Steve Greenhut | February 16, 2024

Urbanists and YIMBYs have myriad disagreements as they try to densify our nation’s land uses, but they are nearly unanimous in their disdain for cars – even though the vast majorities of Americans (including urban dwellers) depend upon them to get around. It’s one thing to promote car alternatives, but quite another to try to remake cities to obliterate car usage.

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