As California’s liberal Democrats continue to entertain the notion of handing over stacks of taxpayer cash to black residents of the state, purportedly as “reparations,” even though California never permitted slavery, the price tag continues to climb.

In January, the African American Reparations Advisory Committee of San Francisco presented its recommendation, asserting that the city has an obligation to provide millions of dollars in compensation to black residents as reparations for enduring decades of discrimination, Fox News reported.

“The $5 million payments could top $100 billion — many times the $14 billion annual budget in San Francisco — and London Breed, the city’s mayor, has not committed to cash reparations,” noted a separate report by The New York Times.

The “urban renewal” phase in the 1960s and ’70s was regarded by a local activist as San Francisco’s version of “apartheid” against its Black residents. Over the years, the city’s Black population declined significantly, dropping from 13 percent in 1970 to approximately 5 percent in 2023, “driven first by cycles of redevelopment and then by the gentrifying forces of tech employers,” the Times said.

But, the paper continued, the high cost being bandied about is very “unrealistic,” especially as the city continues to struggle with budget shortfalls made worse by Democrat policies allowing rampant open-air drug use, crime, and homelessness on city streets.

The committee’s chairman, consultant Eric McDonnell, told The Washington Post the amount of $5 million came as a result of a “journey” rather than a “math formula.”

“There wasn’t a math formula. It was a journey for the committee towards what could represent a significant enough investment in families to put them on this path to economic well-being, growth and vitality that chattel slavery and all the policies that flowed from it destroyed,” he said, adding that it was never the committee’s objective to figure out how to pay for the handouts.

“Our mission was not a feasibility study,” he said. “It was, assess the harm, assign the value.”

Another activist who managed to help push through reparations in Evanston, Ill., told CNN that she isn’t sure how San Francisco will pay eligible black residents $5 million each.

“I don’t know. And so those are the challenges that we all have as municipalities,” Robin Rue Simmons told the outlet.

Rev. Amos Brown, a member of the reparations task force, had previously proposed to the Times that the billionaires residing in San Francisco could potentially assist the task force in accomplishing its objective within the city.

“Of all these billionaires in San Francisco, you could establish a reparations fund” to pay millions to blacks, he said.