If you remember about 40 years ago, it was illegal to charge people more for using credit cards than those who used cash. In attempt to get around the law, businesses began offering products at a set price, then offering a discount for cash.
California politicians, being stymied in their efforts to hand out some government money as reparations, have brought the idea of discounts as a subsidy back.
California’s emerging reparations package includes two contentious proposals that would single out reparations-eligible black Californians for special treatment: one would order all the state’s professional licensing bodies to expedite their applications, while another would subsidize their property taxes by up to $4,000. The package would create the “California American Freedman Affairs Agency”—a permanent state bureaucracy—to decide which Californians should receive reparations benefits and to make sure they are doled out. It would be funded through a separate proposal to siphon off budget reserves specifically for reparations.
A bureaucratic agency would tax white people at a rate that is $4,000 higher than blacks, slow walk their applications for professional licenses, and take other punitive measures. Next up is sure to be a law that requires white owned businesses to display signs identifying them as such.