A task force in California has recommended reparations payments for slavery that would cost at least $800 billion dollars.

The whole concept is crazy on its face. California was never a slave state. It’s all being advanced under the cloak of the progressive concept of equity.

Gavin Newsom has been vague about his support for this and maybe now we know why.

California is facing a $32 billion deficit. You can’t spend $800 billion when you’re already down by $32 billion.

Breitbart News reports:

California Faces a $32 Billion Deficit, ‘This Was Not an Easy Budget’

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced a revised budget plan to address the state’s $32 billion deficit.

Since January, the state’s deficit has grown by $10 billion, as reported by the AP. While the state’s budget is balanced this year, in the coming years the state is committed to spending more money than it will receive from taxpayers.

In the current tax system, the state receives 50 % of its taxpayer dollars from 1% of the population. When the economy and stock market are doing well, the state will receive more in taxes, but when the economy is on the brink of a recession, the wealthy will pay less in taxes.

The press release states:

While the May Revision does not forecast a recession, it recognizes increased risks to the budget since January that could significantly change the state’s fiscal trajectory in the near term. Taking this into account, the plan reflects $37.2 billion in total budgetary reserves, including $22.3 billion in the Budget Stabilization Account.

There is no money for reparations. It’s a pipe dream.

California Democrats are facing rising calls for reparations payments after years of calling reparations a moral imperative. https://t.co/qoE733RMLk It now appears that the California deficit is even higher than reported with an additional $10 billion dollar shortfall.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 13, 2023

California's Deficit Deepens To $32 Billion (14-Year-High)… And That's Before Reparations https://t.co/S8HPtJn4rG

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 12, 2023

Gavin Newsom reveals California's budget deficit is $10B higher than predicted https://t.co/N98BJoh0ro pic.twitter.com/prMIZVtl3h

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) May 13, 2023

The worst part for California is that the state is not growing, it’s shrinking. California has lost population for two years now, not to mention the businesses that have left the state.

Their tax base is getting smaller, not larger. Tough times are ahead.

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A former aide to far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now the boss of the New York Communist party.

Doesn’t this confirm pretty much everything that AOC’s critics have claimed since she first appeared on the national stage?

AOC and the people associated with her do not want to have a debate about policy. They want to destroy our capitalist system and the free market.

The New York Post reports:

Former AOC aide Justine Medina now working as New York Communist Party boss

A ex-aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now working as a senior official in the New York State Communist Party.

Justine Medina, 33, spent a year employed by “The Squad” leader as a political organizer in 2020 and was paid more than $35,000 between February and November of that year, Federal Election Commission records show.

Almost immediately after the election, Medina began working as a full-blown Marxist. In July 2021, she was identified as “co-chair of the New York Young Communist League” by the Communist Party newspaper People’s World. The same publication today identifies her as a member of the “Executive Committee of the New York State Communist Party.”

Social media records show Medina’s Marxist proclivities were in full bloom before and during her employment with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

“Well, I am a Communist, but work for AOC,” she said proudly in a tweet from October 2020. “Communism is about equality, democracy, peace, the advancement of workers, the oppressed, and humanity in general,” she added a month later.

“It is true the path there will be unkind to those who block progress, but Communism is good and should not scare you,” she noted darkly in the same posting.

She certainly looks the part.

Former AOC aide Justine Medina now working as New York Communist Party boss https://t.co/6IgiqUp7n9 pic.twitter.com/xd7LLDhzMk

— New York Post (@nypost) May 13, 2023

The report goes on to note that Medina is a child of wealthy parents, and that her own father escaped communism in Cuba by coming to the United States.

Not a single element of this story is surprising.

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