Monday, June 24, 2019

IN the NEWS - When Politicians Pander to Sin with $57,000,000 of YOUR Money

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: Job 9:24

"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, introduced a bill to extend the idea of reparations to LGBT people. While far more limited in scope than frequent calls for slavery reparations to black
Americans, the proposal blames the U.S. government for withholding benefits same-sex couples allegedly should have received before the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
On Friday, Warren re-introduced S. 1940, the Refund Equality Act, which would allow same-sex couples to amend past tax returns. According to a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the bill would direct $57 million in refunds. The funds would go to same-sex couples in states that had legalized same-sex marriage before the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Warren introduced an earlier version of the bill in 2017.
These reparations may become a kind of litmus test for 2020 Democrats, just like reparations for slavery seem to be (despite their unpopularity with voters).
Never mind the fact that Barack Obama opposed reparations, saying "the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed."
PJMedia