The public, facing a new inflation surge and higher interest rates on everything from cars to credit cards, is expressing no appetite to add higher taxes, either national or in states, to pay for reparations to ancestors of black slavery.
In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, voters dismissed a pending California plan for taxpayer-funded reparations and just the very idea of paying today’s ancestors for the practices of America’s founding families.
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In the survey, 54% opposed reparation schemes such as those being considered in California, St. Louis, Virginia’s Loudoun County, and on Capitol Hill. Some 38% expressed some support, including 60% of Democrats and 66% of black people.
Asked more specifically if they wanted a plan that would require new taxes to cover checks to descendants, 63% were in opposition and 29% in support.
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Congress has been considering reparations plans for years, though the new GOP House majority will shut down those efforts.
Democrats sought to pass a plan that could end up costing $4.7 trillion but got nowhere this year.
