Buying It Back

06/03/2020

Invest together to close the redlining gap.

06/03/2020

Ready to do the opposite of what we're doing now? $10 & one email each month from registered voters to invest social, political, and financial capital so neighbors have the resources to rebuild from within.

www.BuyingItBack.com

06/03/2020

Buying It Back is the platform to LISTEN and invest social, political, and financial capital directly in the people in our African American communities. Community leaders can rebuild from within. It closes the redlining gap. It’s the opposite of what we’re doing now.

Join a zoom call Sat 6/6 @ 9:00 am for an introduction.

06/03/2020

Trump policy makes the gap worse. It's implemented by Charlotte's democrats. This is how we can do the opposite if we work together.

06/03/2020

Trump policy makes the gap worse. It's implemented by Charlotte's democrats. This is how we can do the opposite if we work together.

12/19/2019

Asking County Commission to hear proposal BuyingItBack.com in the economic development committee and 1:1. Corporate subsidies like stadiums make the income gap and upward mobility worse. It has a greater impact in African American communities.

12/19/2019

"Stadium brings investment" is spin. We're still covering overhead for high wealth individuals and companies. That increases the income gap for all of us.

"Stadium brings upward mobility" is just wrong. Taxpayer subsidies make it harder. It's "trickle-down."

The City's Opportunity Task Force explained the gap impacts African Americans more in number and lack of upward mobility. It's been the basis for everything in our last two City and County budget increases. Cause and effect.

12/17/2019

"It'll bring taxes/investment/upward mobility."

Taxes are used to reduce overhead for the most successful companies in the region. It's bad for the little guy.

Profit is how we build the American Dream. When a big project happens naturally, there are winners and losers across the region. With a subsidy, taxpayers make the natural income gap worse. The City showed it's harder to escape in the African American community. Harvard long run data proved we all lose.

It's not the billionaires, it's our elected officials. This is optional. These maps do not have a political spin.

12/16/2019

You're about to be sold on the idea that subsidizing high wealth individuals at taxpayer expense helps upward mobility ("higher paying jobs," "investment," "taxes,"... the usual suspects.)

It causes income disparity for all of us but especially in the African American community. I helped create that analysis.

Maps showing how it works are on

Mortgages, especially with the GI Bill in the 1940s, helped people in the working class accumulate wealth so they could take care of themselves, their families and be self-sufficient in their retirement. Entire neighborhoods were denied those mortgages for generations. “Redlining” was accepted l...

12/15/2019

Less talking. More doing. Partner.

https://buyingitback.com/stadium-finance

Introduction to some of the policy issues around stadium finance. What does it take to be competitive? What are the trade-offs? Does it pay? What are taxpayers up against? (Referenced without permission.)