[W:87]A new Constitution.

[TurtleDude]

When people die as the result of a criminal act, those who are convicted of committing the crime should either be executed or incarcerated, LWOP, at NO cost to taxpayers.

how do you incarcerate a pauper for life and not cost the taxpayers anything?

 

[Individual]

how do you incarcerate a pauper for life and not cost the taxpayers anything?

Charitable contributions by those who may pity them.

 

[TurtleDude]

Charitable contributions by those who may pity them.

so charity will pay for the guards and the facilities etc

don't see this being practical

 

[Individual]

so charity will pay for the guards and the facilities etc

don't see this being practical

Is there a practical solution to any of our problem issues? Perhaps if we were to begin discussing them with intent to find agreeable solutions we might actually make progress in finding them and demanding our elected politicians regardless of political party start to apply them lawfully.

 

[TurtleDude]

Is there a practical solution to any of our problem issues? Perhaps if we were to begin discussing them with intent to find agreeable solutions we might actually make progress in finding them and demanding our elected politicians regardless of political party start to apply them lawfully.

well one side wants to own our guns and use them legally and the other side wants to harass us while pretending they want to stop crimes that we are not committing.

 

[Individual]

well one side wants to own our guns and use them legally and the other side wants to harass us while pretending they want to stop crimes that we are not committing.

Our governments have grown too large in my opinion. Politicians need to reward people who help them get elected, and far too many government employee occupations have been created as a result.
The 16th and 17th amendments, set in motion a fundamental change to our form of government which, IMO, has made money the primary source from which we are governed.

“The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
While she made an excellent point, government being the sole creator of money cannot run out of money, and politicians appease their base and get elected/reelected primarily by more government spending programs which subsidize those voters who are incapable of dealing with the inflation as a result, and other voters who are able to profit as a result. The end result is a shrinking middle class and a growing wealth of the wealthiest.

My 6th grade teacher, in 1947, predicted what would come in the future though at the time I don't think most of us in the class paid her much attention. She didn't have much regard for Wilson and what he was able to get passed in 1913.

 

[Rexedgar]

If you were to come across an architect’s drawing of a house from the Constitutional ratification period, circa 1788, would you stick to the design?

The cookhouse would be out back, upwind of the outhouse.

Or would you modernize the design to reflect the times we currently live in?

 

[lwf]

How many people die from other people drinking?

Plenty. And more than half of the smaller number of firearm deaths in the United States are self-inflicted.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving#:~:text=Overview,These deaths were all preventable.

 

[Rich2018]

how do you incarcerate a pauper for life and not cost the taxpayers anything?

Make him/her work.

 

[TurtleDude]

Make him/her work.

do you think they can earn more than the cost of their upkeep? Last I check, federal prison is about 50K an inmate.

 

[Rich2018]

do you think they can earn more than the cost of their upkeep? Last I check, federal prison is about 50K an inmate.

Yes

They're basically free labor (their "pay" is a pittance)

How much does an employer have to pay to employ one person at $50k pa ?
Granted there are many high risk, max security inmates of which this is not the case.