Add to this a note about our erstwhile P.M. on his tour through the U.S.
:
http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/world/texas_conservatives_reject_harpers_crime_plan/2b172224
as pertains to H's "Tough on Crime" legislation in Canada.
"Conservatives in the United States' toughest crime-fighting
jurisdiction - Texas - say the Harper government's crime strategy won't
work.
"You will spend billions and billions and billions on locking people
up," says Judge John Creuzot
<http://www2.dallasbar.org/judiciary/profiles.asp?item=64> of the Dallas
County Court. "And there will come a point in time where the public
says, 'Enough!' And you'll wind up letting them out."
Adds Representative Jerry Madden
<http://www.house.state.tx.us/news/member/press-releases/?id=3754&session=82&district=67&bill_code=3715>,
a conservative Republican who heads the Texas House Committee on
Corrections, "It's a very expensive thing to build new prisons and, if
you build 'em, I guarantee you they will come. They'll be filled, OK?
Because people will send them there.
"But, if you don't build 'em, they will come up with very creative
things to do that keep the community safe and yet still do the
incarceration necessary." ..."
So, while some Texans realize this attitude is non-productive, it
appears that Louisiana still has a lesson on humanity to learn.
Darryl
On 10/21/2011 10:28 AM, D and N wrote:
It also sounds like a way to wipe out more poor people, or get them
into those profitable prisons. The underground economy of second hand
goods grows as mainstream economy tanks. Tracking people dodging
financial obligations to credit card/banks or other collectors, or
nailing those with meager disposable assets who may be in receipt of
social services, designed to get easier and more rewarding in terms of
numbers caught around the dates that the rent is due. This law will
mostly fail, like Florida's idiotic efforts to find welfare fraud. It
will only serve to push the underground economy further under.
Apart from the continuing war against the poor, this smacks of
conditioning towards isolationist internal economy. The fact that it
happened in the state still reeling from Katrina is particularly
loathsome, like going back to chopping off hands for stealing bread.
Natalia
On 10/21/2011 8:38 AM, D and N wrote:
Surely that has to be illegal. Not allowing "coin of the realm" for
purchase of anything one wants to buy? Although I understand this is
a way to capitalize on the tracking of purchases for the purpose of
taxation, but it sounds more like a banking scam to create the debit
card revenue stream.
Darryl
On 10/20/2011 9:35 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/second-hand-dealer-law
"Cold hard cash. It's good everywhere you go, right? You can use
it to
pay for anything. But that's not the case here in Louisiana
now. It's
a law that was passed during this year's busy legislative session.
House bill 195 basically says those who buy and sell second hand
goods
cannot use cash to make those transactions, and it flew so far
under
the radar most businesses don't even know about it."
- Mike
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