01-07-2016, 06:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2016, 06:36 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
(01-07-2016, 12:37 PM)gstanford Wrote: It costs more to imprison somebody than it does to pay them a welfare benefit and a health benefit. A lot more.
Not to mention they have no prospect of obtaining work while imprisoned and almost no prospect after serving their time thanks to a criminal record. All you would do is entrench the poor, not uplift them!
Governments and societies want to improve peoples lives not worsen them, they want people gainfully employed, sitting with no hope of obtaining employment, that is why they have the policies that they do and not yours!
Well GStan, in the USA we had "my policies" for 233 years and became the most powerful nation on Earth, and one of the top 10 best places to live for rich and poor alike. (arguably the best)
So you'll have to pardon me if I don't see the need to follow in the footsteps of tiny wannabe countries that I don't want to live in.
You haven't posted any link to data supporting your outlandish theories that giving the poor healthcare stops them from being criminals, but even if you had, it leaves the obvious question:
Is the answer to crime forcing non criminals to pay criminals not to commit crime?
That is one of the craziest theories I've ever seen, bar none.
BTW- I think pretty much every country has some examples of this going on, and it's usually not considered a good thing. The organized crime guys come around, the business owners give them money not to commit crimes against them.
If the people are going to commit crimes unless paid not to GStan, they should be jailed, not bribed.
