Self-help author Marianne Williamson explained in a CNN interview Wednesday how she planned to pay the hefty bill for her planned slavery reparations.
“By definition, projects of economic and educational renewal goes into the lives of people. It increases their educational potential, which increases financial potential. Anything which helps people thrive is money placed into the economy,” Williamson said to Brooke Baldwin.
“You have to understand why people are saying, ‘OK, it sounds wonderful and it felt authentic, but where does she — poof! — get this money from?'” Baldwin asked. “It sounds like maybe you don’t entirely know.”
“I don’t even think it’s about that,” Williamson responded. “You repeal the 2017 tax cut. You put back in the middle-class tax cut. You make it that the United States government, in fact, can negotiate with Big Pharma. You have the $15-an-hour minimum wage. You have the 3% tax on billionaires. You have the 2% tax on $50 million or more. You start having some cash on hand.”
“Also, you remember that this is where money comes from,” she continued. “The more you educate a child, and the more you unleash the spirit of people by uncapping their dreams, the more creative people can become, the more productive people become, the better the employers will be, the more they’ll be entrepreneurial. If you want money, help people live their dreams.”
During the first night of the CNN presidential debate on Tuesday, the 67-year-old author pitched to a receptive audience a tab of half-a-trillion dollars in slave reparations.
“What makes me qualified to say $200 to $500 billion dollars? I’ll tell you what makes me qualified,” she said. “If you did the math of the 40 acres and a mule, given that there was 4 to 5 million slaves at the end of the Civil War, and they were all promised 40 acres and a mule for every family of four, if you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars. And I believe that anything less than $100 billion dollars is an insult and I believe that $200 to $500 billion is politically feasible today because so many Americans realize there is an injustice that continues to form a toxicity underneath the surface, an emotional turbulence that only reparations will cure.”
Williamson went viral earlier this month when a video of her asking white people to apologize to black people for racial injustice resurfaced.
Presidential candidate @MarWilliamson once had white Americans apologize to Black Americans at a speaking event pic.twitter.com/x1C3JHAwtO
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