politicsnation. tonight s lead, out with the old, in with the new. right now there s literally just hours left in 2022. a turbulent political year now ending with several transitions. not least of which being this incoming divided congress. the winds of change are blowing in both parties, as new leadership takes the reins for congressional democrats, for republicans, and internal battles over the parties future rages even as the gop prepares to take over the house in a little over a week. 2022 you had its highs and lows. but, i am grateful for a few things. democrats retained the senate, and i ve held on to morehouse eats not expected. the biden white house has a long list of policy wins to boast about as the year ends. and, even with a congressional probe into january 6th ending, the investigation surrounding donald trump appears to be tightening by the day. and, yesterday at the after six years of legal wrangling, we finally know just how little donald trump paid in federal
from the south, and the midwest going back to the civil war era. looking at that history, you are task force has looked at five areas specifically in its evaluation of the discrimination effect on the states black residents. housing, incarceration, property seizures, devaluation of black businesses, and health care. each area representing a loss that could be quantified. another housing discrimination is key in the study, and your panel found that from 1933 to 1977 that factor alone would as to meet you around 569 billion dollars in losses, $223,200 per person. in reparations. can you tell us why housing discrimination factors so heavily in the state s history? absolutely.
done deal done deal. they delivered the first of the recommendations. at descendants of in the state, be compensated $223,000 each, for housing discrimination. not a total cost in mind you, this is only one income of the things that they are going to compensate for about the five that they highlighted. it will cost just for housing, around $569 billion. well, that is no big deal, it s only more than california s expenditures for all of 2021. well, this is obvious, where this is all going to lead. california is fast becoming home to just an elite class of the superrich, people like the kardashians, decedent s gilbert, mark zuckerberg, with everyone else living up the crumbs in the lower tier. and the ones who are really affected by growing crime, homelessness, and hopelessness. it is a beautiful statement, can you finally is, but it has an ugly reality.
mike: lawmakers in new york are working to develop a committee to pay reparations for slavery after a california panel came to the decision to giving money to descendants of slaves. good morning, madison. new york is looking to follow in the footsteps of california and explore slavery reparations for the descendants of slaves. this is not the first time it has come up in new york. this summer a bill passed in the state house that called for a commission to study the impact of slavery and reparation. it failed in the senate. now this renewed push comes after a california panel created by governor newsom estimated that $569 billion is owed to the descendants of slaves or an estimated $223,000 per person. new york representative taylor darling believes that number might be too low. assembly woman provided the
there will be some people that see this as a great thing. then again, there is a good percentage, close to 50% of wax in america that are in the middle class income category. you look at this and you look at what they are doing and it is a vote buying scheme. including other taxpaying blacks where does 500 and $569 billion come from? larger than the single year expenditure of 512 billion. you see the entire expenditures in 2021, 512.8 billion compared to the estimated 569 million which is what would happen if you gave the two and a half-million black california residents $223,000 each. let s say that all the states went all in on this.