Cali Jail

I am outraged about the release of thousands of inmates state wide. Apparently the government is too lazy to make cuts so they let criminals out of jail instead.

I am outraged that over 1% of the entire population of the US is in jail to begin with, and that our criminal justice system is little more than an industry.  I am further outraged that most of the money is spent on our ridiculous "War on drugs", and that our streets are patrolled day and night by ignorant, sadistic, uniformed thugs.  I have traveled to more than 30 countries, and have never been to one where there are anywhere near the number of police that we have.  I am outraged that when I was taught that this was the land of the free, it was a lie.

>>2
You are in the land of the free; there is no guarantee about how much of it is free.

>>2
It's become an avalanche of bullshit across the board.  The government exercises powers it was never meant to have, and large concentrations of wealth exercise obscene amounts of control over both the government and the people.

I think we should return to the Jeffersonian ideal- limited government intrusion in peoples lives, and a healthy distrust of wealthy, powerful self-interested entities.  No more legislating social issues, no more victimless crimes, and no more bullshit corporate welfare.  Tax and regulate the shit out of large businesses, and leave small and medium-sized businesses alone to thrive.

>>Jeffersonian ideal
>>Tax and regulate the shit out of large businesses,

lawl

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Jeffersonian ideal as in small and medium-sized businesses being the backbone of the economy.  The only way to do that now is to rein in multinational corporations and large concentrations of wealth and power.  The government is the only entity with the resources to accomplish that goal.

>>4
I think cutting them off from bullshit corporate welfare will suffice.

>>7
I second this motion.

KILL POOR PEOPLE AND FEED THEM TO STARVING PEOPLE AND THEN GIVE THEM AIDS AND NUKE THEM AND GO TO MARS>

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>>9
AND ENJOY HAVING NO WORKFORCE.

I heard there was a plan to release them into Mexico.

>>11
If they worked they wouldn't be poor.

>>13
If there was more economic opportunity for them they would be able to work and thus wouldn't be poor. Or at least not as poor as they would be otherwise.

>>14
Cut welfare and every non-essential government service, drop tax on low incomes to 0, use extreme force to evict illegal immigrants, set up work camps for prisoners and you will have jobs overflowing into the streets.

>>15
I agree. Plus abolish corporate welfare and all this corporatism in general, and I myself would gradually dismantle the IRS and Federal Reserve. So no more federal income tax for everybody. Though government would be funded through tariffs and excise taxes, provided that the taxes aren't unreasonable.

>>15
Extreme force regarding illegal immigration is unnecessary.  Go after the employers with heavy fines for hiring illegals.  Have states revoke business licenses.  Once it becomes too expensive and too dangerous to hire illegals, the jobs will go back to Americans, and the border crossings will slow to a crawl.

>>17
Yeah, but you also have to realize that they (the illegals) have the incentive to come and hop across the border because of the free benefits that they receive. Take away the welfare state and this half-assed two language policy that is being practiced and the crossings will also slow to a crawl. You probably wouldn't even have to go after the employers in most cases under such a scenario.

>>16
Tariffs are really only justified as a way of matching the tax gains made by other countries that employ tariffs, mutual free trade is always beneficial for individuals in both nations in the long term and almost always beneficial for the nations themselves except a few very small nations with poorly diversified economies.

Excise taxes are part of an already flawed tax system, I agree with the occasional utilitarian tax in the short term simply because we have not developed alternatives but ideally they should be phased out in favor of a market based tax system.
>>17
Obviously this task should be handled from many angles with a fluid array of solutions and those you have suggested will be cost effective to a certain degree, evictions will still ultimately have to take place however, alongside incentive based policies like free rides back across the border of course, and this will mean the police will need new special powers.

>>19
Tariffs are really only justified as a way of matching the tax gains made by other countries that employ tariffs, mutual free trade is always beneficial for individuals in both nations in the long term and almost always beneficial for the nations themselves except a few very small nations with poorly diversified economies.
I agree somewhat, unless by "free trade" you mean crap like NAFTA and CAFTA, which are utter failures. You don't need trade agreements to peacefully trade with other nations. You just simply do it.