Xenophon wrote:Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:If you take more money from 'here' and give it to people doing things over 'there' they'll be less likely to commit crime because *reasons*.
- Doc
Maybe I'm dense Cam (it has been known to happen) but where has anyone in this thread suggested what you have written above?
I'm trying to figure out a solution since there's a "war" on the poor and on minorities. Obviously, the poor and minorities can't afford to break the law, but when they do break the law they're adversely affected by it because they don't have the money to give to the government. That's war, by the way. Being poor. And being a minority. Enemies of the state!
So. The pecuniary effects of breaking the law don't seem to be a deterrent. With that, we should figure out a way to make breaking the law less 'warlike' on the poor and on minorities. I see a few solutions at hand:
1) Let them break the law with impunity because the poor and minorities, historically, have been oppressed by wealthy white men and this is a way of taking power back. The poor can break the law with impunity and as a result wealthy white men will now feel the fear the poor and minorities have felt for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Maybe wealthy white men will shift some of their money from 'here' to over 'there' to make amends. Think of it as open season on Whitey until they come to heal.
2) Everyone pays a pro-rated fine for breaking the law. This essentially 'levels' the playing field, but then you run into problems of representation. In a democracy we're equal under the law, and granting someone more equality than others is problematic. For example, if a wealthy person has to shift more of his money from 'here' to over 'there' for a speeding ticket, then you're going to have to explain why his vote isn't at least worth 2/5 more during the election cycle since he's paying more to fund the government in which everyone has an equal vote. In other words, he's being targeted specifically for his wealth which seems... I dunno.. problematic. Anyway. That's a solution. Take more of the wealthy person's money because it's proportionately fair. Also, we should take more of their time to make up for the injustices and inequalities the system has levied over the years on the poor and minorities so Whitey is incentivized to be more lenient with policing and sentencing. I like the way you think!
3) We should pay reparations to all the aggrieved who aren't wealthy white males. And by wealthy white males I really just mean all men who have, say, a genetic makeup of more than 50% that traces back to Europe. “F” the Irish, by the way. They get stuck with the bill, too. That way in the future, after we get done taking all the money from 'here' and shifting it to everyone over 'there' and everyone feels happy and all grievances are settled we can make sure that a utopian society is established where no one will break the law because everyone is treated perfectly equal according to our new progressive overlords.
4) We should just seize the means of production and ensure that all jobs and positions are filled with people who perfectly represent historical grievances so we can make it all better. We should also seize the means of reproduction because Whitey is evil and once everyone is caramel and have no identifiable gender the human race will be at peace with one another, Gaia, and fly to the stars spreading economic and social Marxism to all life in the universe. Think Star Trek, but no asshole white people.
There you go! Shift assets, seize the economy, breed out bad genes.
- Doc