### Comment:
You didn’t read the article not even the first paragraph. The purpose is to conduct research on the impact of slavery so they can design policies with that impact in mind.  I imagine it has to be a bill so they can get the funding for the research. Which in the long term would provide a positive impact on the economy. Less poor the higher spy goes

### REPLY:
$17 trillion is about the size of the entire US economy. $40,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. 
  
 If you want to pay that to help the blacks of the USA who are six, seven generations removed from slavery - slavery that the lawful US government ended - be my guest.  
  
 But don't pretend that your libtard logic makes economic sense.

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