Amazing isn't it? People are so self centered that they will pervert the justice system to create a bigger empire.
In Oregon, the voters didn't roll over and agree to a tax increase, so the state let something like 20 criminals out on the street as (basically) blackmail. The jails are a huge profit center for government as well as a great tool for leveraging higher and higher taxes. After all, who can vote against higher taxes when they need it for keeping criminals off the street? Never mind that the reason they need more money is that they created five billion dollars worth of OTHER govt programs too.
And THAT is why Doonesbury is making fun of Oregon. We didn't vote for higher taxes, so we must hate our kids and love to have criminals on the street. What logic.
It's not America. It's a few politicians that are (in my very heated opinion) wasting oxygen.
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