Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

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117. How?

Logistically, how should this be accomplished?

I'm a second generation Chinese American. Should I have taxes deducted to pay for something I or my parents had nothing to do with?

I know a guy whose Japanese great grandparents emigrated to America in the late 19th century to California. Should he have taxes deducted because his American ancestry goes back farther, but still has nothing to do with black slavery?

And I also know a white woman whose Polish ancestors came through Ellis Island in the late 19th century. Should she be forced to pay because she's white, although she and her ancestors have nothing to do with black slavery?

How much bureaucracy do you want to create to check the ancestry of every black and white American to make sure that they do or do not have slaves or slave-owners in their family tree?

Furthermore, is the government investigating everyone's family tree a violation of privacy? Good luck with that in court.

And speaking of reparations, how about giving reparations to all the millions of Mexicans who had their land taken away (not to mention the thousands also massacred) by the Polk Administration in the 1840s to create California, Arizona, et al?

At some point, this gets ridiculous.