No taxation without reparations: Texas Democrat leans into fresh idea breathing life back into the reparations movement

Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) seemed to endorse the idea that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations for the injustices of slavery.  During an interview with The Black Lawyers’ Podcast, Crockett said she heard the idea of exempting taxes for black Americans from a celebrity. She said it “[wasn’t] necessarily a bad idea.” “One of the things they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time because that puts money back in your pocket,” Crockett told the host J. Carter. However, Crockett points out limitations to the plan, such as some black Americans being too poor and already not paying taxes. “If you do the no-tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and not paying taxes in the first place, it doesn’t really—” Crockett said when Carter interrupted to suggest that people “may want those checks like they got from COVID.”  Crockett argues that reparations are necessary and that more studies on the matter and investments must be done.  “So many black folk, not only do you owe for the labor that was stolen and killed and all the other things, but the fact...