African americans overwhelmingly agree that the federal government should pay reparations to descendants of people who were slaves 150 years ago.
Everyone else is majority opposed.
So how does a democracy deal with things where individuals look at zero sum games where one voting group wants money from the other?
This is pretty similar to a high privileged group, beneficiaries of college loans, now being unwilling to pay the very modest repayments asked of them ...
I fear it is these divisions ripping our democracy apart. One group just wants to vote to take money from another.
The constitution didn't originally give the federal government the responsibility for these things but, now, as the tax burden has tremendously increased - there is money to be had ...
Another "long term bug" in democracy?:
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherstwcvb-poll-finds-nearly-half
African americans overwhelmingly agree that the federal government should pay reparations to descendants of people who were slaves 150 years ago.
Everyone else is majority opposed.
So how does a democracy deal with things where individuals look at zero sum games where one voting group wants money from the other?
This is pretty similar to a high privileged group, beneficiaries of college loans, now being unwilling to pay the very modest repayments asked of them ...
I fear it is these divisions ripping our democracy apart. One group just wants to vote to take money from another.
The constitution didn't originally give the federal government the responsibility for these things but, now, as the tax burden has tremendously increased - there is money to be had ...