>Politicians also love the government prison complex. It supports their power by making sure taxes remain artificially high, which keeps their slush funds highe

>Politicians also love the government prison complex. It supports their power by making sure taxes remain artificially high, which keeps their slush funds higher, and they can basically build jobs in their voting districts with government prisons. This doesn't make any sort of accounting sense. This doesn't keep taxes "artificially" high. That money is collected in taxes because there is a very expensive program that needs to be funded. There no greater opportunity for embezzlement in your scenario than out of your scenario. Your argument is fine without this claim, though. LEO unions are profoundly fucked up institutions.