Why I Wish They'd Raised Me to be a Black Farmer
Mar 23, 2021 2:53:36 GMT
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Post by icemandios on Mar 23, 2021 2:53:36 GMT
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The New York Times’ David Brooks:
Black farmers will receive over $4 billion in what looks like a step toward reparations. There’s a huge expansion of health insurance subsidies. Many of these changes, like the child tax credit, may well become permanent. This moment is like 1981, the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, except in reverse. It’s not just that government is heading in a new direction, it’s that the whole paradigm of the role of government in American life is shifting.
[A step toward reparations? What, do I dare ask, would be the finish line of reparations? Let's just examine this first step:
In 2017, the United States had 48,697 producers who identified as black, either alone or in combination with another race. They accounted for 1.4 percent of the country’s 3.4 million producers, and they lived and farmed primarily in southeastern and mid-Atlantic states.
For the sake of simplicity, can we round that up to 50,000? Good.
Now $4,000,000,000 divided by 50,000 comes out to $80,000 per farmer. And since I did not attend school in Baltimore, I reckon that is more than the $1,400 most people got this past weekend.
Is this just the government picking winners and losers again?
How Many Small Businesses Will Coronavirus Kill?
Naaah.]
The New York Times’ David Brooks:
Black farmers will receive over $4 billion in what looks like a step toward reparations. There’s a huge expansion of health insurance subsidies. Many of these changes, like the child tax credit, may well become permanent. This moment is like 1981, the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, except in reverse. It’s not just that government is heading in a new direction, it’s that the whole paradigm of the role of government in American life is shifting.
[A step toward reparations? What, do I dare ask, would be the finish line of reparations? Let's just examine this first step:
In 2017, the United States had 48,697 producers who identified as black, either alone or in combination with another race. They accounted for 1.4 percent of the country’s 3.4 million producers, and they lived and farmed primarily in southeastern and mid-Atlantic states.
For the sake of simplicity, can we round that up to 50,000? Good.
Now $4,000,000,000 divided by 50,000 comes out to $80,000 per farmer. And since I did not attend school in Baltimore, I reckon that is more than the $1,400 most people got this past weekend.
Is this just the government picking winners and losers again?
How Many Small Businesses Will Coronavirus Kill?
Naaah.]