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meow2u3

(24,764 posts) Sun Jul 8, 2012, 01:36 PM Jul 2012

Urge Passage of "Life Without Parole" as the penalty for financial crimes exceeding $10m or affectin

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/urge-passage-quotlife-without-parolequot-penalty-financial-crimes-exceeding-10m-or-affecting-10000/Wgn1WnFS

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Urge Passage of "Life Without Parole" as the penalty for financial crimes exceeding $10m or affectin (Original Post) meow2u3 Jul 2012 OP

I can live with that. We will, however, have to build more prisons. russspeakeasy Jul 2012 #1

if we dropped drug crimes, could we keep the prison # steady? ret5hd Jul 2012 #3

With hard labor, at a rate set at $0.01c per hour. Woody Woodpecker Jul 2012 #2

Too lenient. Make it proportional to sentences given the poor for stealing SDjack Jul 2012 #4

+1 HiPointDem Jul 2012 #5

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)

1. I can live with that. We will, however, have to build more prisons.

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Sun Jul 8, 2012, 01:38 PM

Jul 2012

It would be interesting to see how the D's and R's interact in prison.

ret5hd

(20,495 posts)

3. if we dropped drug crimes, could we keep the prison # steady?

Reply to russspeakeasy (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 01:48 PM

Jul 2012

Woody Woodpecker

(562 posts)

2. With hard labor, at a rate set at $0.01c per hour.

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Sun Jul 8, 2012, 01:40 PM

Jul 2012

SDjack

(1,448 posts)

4. Too lenient. Make it proportional to sentences given the poor for stealing

Reply to meow2u3 (Original post)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 01:58 PM

Jul 2012

money for food and shelter. For example, if a poor homeless man robs or steals $100 for a sandwich and a night in a motel on a bitterly cold night in January, he could get 10 years in prison. So, a rich man stealing $10,000,000 should get:
$10,000,000 / $100 x 10 years, which is 1,000,000 years in prison. That kind of justice would restore international confidence in the integrity of the US financial system.

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)

5. +1

Reply to SDjack (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 02:04 PM

Jul 2012

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