California lawmaker aims to protect reparations payments to Blacks from taxation

A California lawmaker is trying to make sure reparations payments to Black residents do not get taxed if the effort becomes a reality. "For generations, descendants of formerly enslaved people have been denied both justice and economic opportunity," Assemblymember Tina McKinnor, a Democrat representing Inglewood district, said in a statement announcing the bill aiming to establish the measure. "Reparations are meant to repair harm, not be partially taken back through taxation." Assembly Bill 218