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VGPolyglot on 15 February 2017
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irstupid said:
VGPolyglot said:

Of course they're going to commit more crimes when the laws are made to be disadvantageous to poorer people. You also seen to be mistaking me for someone else: I don't like Obama either and I'm an anarchist, so I am not promoting bigger government. Also, Tump's intention was definitely to spin them as bad people. He says that they're rapists, as a fact, but then says that he assumes that some are good people, hinting at the possibility that he could be mistaken and that maybe there aren't any.

I always hate that statement, that crimes are disadvantageous to poorer people.

Don't commit a freaking crime.

Let's take getting a parkign ticket. Very innocent crime. But you get a $15 ticket. It says on there you have 1 week to pay for it, or it costs $10 more, and then $10 more each 2 days after. (something rediculous like that. Trust me, they are rediculous. They go up exponentially in price super fast)

Now if your poor, maybe the $15 is a tough squeeze to handle right away. If you can't afford $15 right now, wow you are gonna be F*cked real soon, cause in like a month it will be like $100 or more. A weathly person can obviously handle paying the $15, or if they forget the marked up $100 or more price.

But in the end, just don't get a parking ticket. Or speeding ticket, or whatever CRIME you are committing. Say you get a DUI and your car gets impounded. That becomes like a $100 a night or something rediculous. Yes its rediculous. But again a crime, that is preventable.

So pray tell me how do we punish people for breaking the law? Hefty fines ar emeant to be a detterant. If speeding only gave one a $5 ticket, do you really thing anyone woudl care? No, everyone woudl be speeding.

And don't bring in that stupid argument of make fines proportional to income. That just brings about discrimination. You woluld have cop cars sitting there in their speed traps ignoring beaters and just pulling over mercedes or something. They would know that pulling over a crap car would get them like $100, versus a benz woudl give thema  $5000 ticket. And the rich woudl just then drive beaters, or have someone drive them.

Well, obviously it's not working very well as a deterrent if most people in prison return there later on. And yes, crimes agree disadvantageous to poorer people because rich people are not nearly as desperate because they don't have to worry about where their next paycheck is coming from. And of course I don't want to make crimes proportional to income,I want to get to the root pig the problem and eliminate income inequality in general.