{"id":9749,"date":"2024-04-26T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9749"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:00:27","slug":"how-california-dems-are-finding-workarounds-to-cash-payment-race-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9749","title":{"rendered":"How California Dems Are Finding Workarounds to Cash Payment Race Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"article-excerpt text-xl\">Experts say the proposals may be unconstitutional<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCalifornia state senator Steven Bradford (R) (Arturo Holmes\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span>California Democrats are finding ways to make reparations to black descendants of slaves that don\u2019t include direct cash payments, as voters overwhelmingly reject the idea of money handouts. Instead, they are moving ahead with ideas like subsidized property taxes and expedited business licenses\u2014which experts say may violate constitutional guarantees of equal treatment.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>California\u2019s emerging reparations package includes two contentious proposals that would single out reparations-eligible black Californians for special treatment: one would order all the state\u2019s professional licensing bodies to expedite their applications, while another would subsidize their property taxes by up to $4,000. The package would create the<\/span><span>\u00a0&#8220;<\/span>California American Freedman Affairs Agency<span>&#8220;\u2014a permanent state bureaucracy\u2014to decide which Californians should receive reparations benefits and to make sure they are doled out. It would be funded through a <\/span>separate proposal<span> to siphon off budget reserves specifically for reparations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>These bills, which lawmakers have been quietly pushing after California\u2019s headline-nabbing reparations task force last June <\/span><span>issued a 1,100 page <\/span>report<span> full of costly policy demands, have easily cleared committee vetting without substantive debate and appear to have the support to pass the legislature\u2019s approval. They are far more modest than many of the reparations panel\u2019s recommendations such as <\/span>cash payments<span>, which the <\/span>majority of Californians<span> oppose and which <\/span>Newsom<span> and <\/span>black leaders <span>have refused to endorse.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Even so, critics say giving black residents preference for work licenses and helping them with property taxes could open up the state to constitutional challenges, since these policies may violate guarantees of equal treatment of citizens regardless of race, as well as last year\u2019s landmark U.S. Supreme Court <\/span><span>ban on <\/span>affirmative action<span>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Andrew Quinio, an attorney with the public interest law firm Pacific Legal Foundation, told lawmakers Tuesday that the occupational licensing bill could hurt all Californians who have to apply for these permits to work. Some two million people in the Golden State, or one in six workers, have to be licensed to do their jobs\u2014from contractors to landscapers, hairdressers, teachers, and realtors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>&#8220;By passing [this bill], you will be telling these hard-working Californians that their spot in line in order to get a license is dependent on their race,&#8221; Quinio said. &#8220;That is plainly unconstitutional.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Lee Ohanian, UCLA economics professor and senior fellow at Stanford\u2019s Hoover Institution, said the measure &#8220;would seem to run afoul&#8221; of civil rights law and the 14th Amendment\u2019s equal protection clause. A spokesman for the bill\u2019s author did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Quinio noted that the property tax measure, authored by former reparations task force member and state senator Steven Bradford, raises similar constitutional questions\u2014a claim Bradford\u2019s office shrugged off. The lawmaker\u2019s spokesman said the legislation has precedent in a longtime state program that refunded some property tax for elderly, disabled, and blind Californians.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Yet Quinio said the policies can\u2019t be correlated.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Being African American is not a disability, so they aren\u2019t on the same level,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When you have an immutable characteristic like race being equated with getting tax subsidies, you\u2019ll be running into constitutional issues that would absolutely be subject to strict scrutinies.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Around California, cities and counties have already been fighting challenges to various race-based benefit programs. Californians for Equal Rights last year <\/span>filed suit<span> against four &#8220;universal basic income&#8221; programs in San Francisco that <\/span>target certain racial groups<span>. The Pacific Legal Foundation has taken up a <\/span>separate case <span>against San Diego for offering tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars for first-time homeowners who are &#8220;black, indigenous, or people of color.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the proposals for reparations to black descendants of slaves in California, which include subsidized property taxes and expedited business licenses, may be unconstitutional due to violating guarantees of equal treatment of citizens regardless of 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