One penny sales tax. Not impossible at all.
Okay, let’s take a cursory look at your proposal, let’s quit clowning around and take it seriously. You want to make it a sales tax paid for by all Oklahoma residents.
1) Does that include black residents?
2) Does that include descendants of black victims of the massacre?
3) Why should residents of, say, Altus be expected to pay for an atrocity that took place hundreds of miles from them a hundred years ago?
4) How much money will need to be collected to fulfill your vision?
5) You want to restore Greenwood back to its glory days. Does that mean razing buildings that have been erected since the event?
6) Will the owners of the razed buildings receive recompense?
7) Will current residents that are not descendants be forced out? Will they receive recompense?
8) Will black-only construction companies be the only ones allowed to participate in the rebuilding?
9) Will the monies collected be set aside, untouched by any project unrelated to restoring Greenwood?
10) Who will oversee preserving the money when it is collected? Who will pay for the overseers? Will it come out of the set-aside tax revenue?
11) Who will oversee the reconstruction/restoration of Greenwood? Who will pay these
overseers? Will it also come from the taxes that are collected?
12) Who will determine who is an authorized descendant?
13) What will determine is an authorized descendant?
14) it’s been a century since the atrocity. What “blood percentage” will determine an authorized descendant?
15) Does your vision of the restoration mean the building of homes?
16) Are those homes earmarked for authorized descendants?
17) Do the descendants move in free of charge?
18) Are the homes fully furnished? Furniture, dishes, linens, etc.?
19) Does your vision include restoring a business district?
20) Do your answers on Questions 15-19 apply?
Here’s 20 questions that come off the top of my head. While you’re answering them I’ll compile another hundred or more. I want to take your proposal seriously. A serious proposal demands that serious questions be answered forthrightly. I look forward to what you have to say. I assume you have thought this through top to bottom, have considered ramifications and consequences, and are prepared to answer all questions in your goal of persuading people to sign on.
btw are you familiar with the "sooner" generating station? I built that mofo!!!
