Denver Coun. Candi CdeBaca said taxes should be more redistributive to help non-white businesses succeed. .“Instead of a BID (Business Improvement District) collecting extra taxation from the black and brown businesses that are struggling, you could be collecting those taxes from white-led businesses all over the city and redistributing them to black- and brown-owned businesses who are not part of it or who are simply just black or brown owned,” said CdeBaca in a video. .The video starts off with CdeBaca saying capitalism was “built on stolen land, stolen labour, and stolen resources.” She said a cheque today could not undo the damages of generations of stolen wealth. .In response, she said reparations have to come in land, labour, and resources in an ongoing fashion. There are structures Denver has which could be flipped to begin to do that. .The city councillor went on to say the basic income project could be an important way to return a cheque to people in an ongoing fashion if it were focused. In its current format, she said it is not reparations or close enough. .This is because it does not focus on non-white people. Who Denver is experimenting with for basic income is homeless people, and it is not a liveable wage, she said. .CdeBaca concluded by saying Denver has “to go far beyond welfare wages and go to prosperous wages.” She said people do not want to scrape by anymore. .“A reparations role should not be survivable,” she said. .“It should be repairing the harm which is this entire economy.”
