When whites just don't get it, part 5

[KingCharlemagne]

32. All due respect, but the government 'forcefully' takes one group's money

all the time when it taxes; I happen to approve of that 'taking' but a 'taking' it is. Think of expropriation of assets as a one-time forceful 'tax' on (already accumulated) wealth and it won't seem like such harsh medicine.

I answered in response to the standard canard of "Well, how are you going to pay for reparations?" from someone else. The simple fact is that government could simply credit the bank accounts of eligible recipients with a given sum. Without expropriating wealth or using its taxing authority, such a move would of necessity 'increase the deficit' (another canard in the anti-reparations schtick). One can make an argument, however, that certain social goals, like healing the Social Contract, merit an increase in the deficit and the debt.