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Post by mikeydokey on Nov 9, 2010 23:55:36 GMT -5
70? Should be more like 7000.
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Post by Bob on Nov 10, 2010 8:29:45 GMT -5
70? Should be more like 7000. my thoughts exactly |
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Post by coffeeshooter on Nov 11, 2010 8:27:13 GMT -5
70? Should be more like 7000. Ditto ... or more. |
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Post by mincerray on Nov 11, 2010 9:54:28 GMT -5
So providing free housing to many thousands of people in prisons will save the taxpayer how much again?
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Nov 11, 2010 11:00:54 GMT -5
Millions if you do it right.
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Post by ssmynkint on Nov 11, 2010 16:14:59 GMT -5
A fraction of what you'd get if corporate tax loopholes were closed.
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Post by mikeydokey on Nov 11, 2010 22:58:15 GMT -5
So providing free housing to many thousands of people in prisons will save the taxpayer how much again? You act like free housing is a right. It's obvious you benefit from it somehow. It's a shame you can't keep your streetlights working over in your neighborhood. www.newschannel9.com/news/lighting-996088-fixed-tubman.html |
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Post by osrb on Nov 12, 2010 8:27:05 GMT -5
So providing free housing to many thousands of people in prisons will save the taxpayer how much again? Just ask Sheriff Joe. He seems to have gotten it down to pennies a day. |
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Post by coffeeshooter on Nov 12, 2010 9:09:36 GMT -5
So providing free housing to many thousands of people in prisons will save the taxpayer how much again? Prisons are managed by corporations.  |
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Nov 12, 2010 10:31:07 GMT -5
Many are...many are not.
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Post by mincerray on Nov 12, 2010 14:01:23 GMT -5
Millions if you do it right. OK can you explain this sequence: House thousands of people in taxpayer-funded prisons ->  ?? -> save taxpayers millions of dollars In a bit more, um, detail? |
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Post by daworm on Nov 12, 2010 23:16:09 GMT -5
Not everyone that lives in public housing is a thug. Not all thugs live in public housing. But there are a lot of thugs in public housing.
Its a funny thing, though. If you don't put people in prison for certain things, or don't put them in for very long, then a lot of people do those things. If you do put people in prison for those things, you don't fill up the prisons, except in the short term. In the long term, fewer people do those things, so you get less crime AND less people in prison. That brief surge at the beginning is the price you pay for being lax for too long in the first place.
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Nov 13, 2010 13:24:44 GMT -5
Hud housing is a joke. No accoutability at all. Program needs re-tooled. If were not going to put people in prision for breaking the law because of costs, why bother having laws.
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Post by Fatally Yours on Nov 15, 2010 19:38:33 GMT -5
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