> But it involves money changing hands, which gets certain people all up in a lather about abolishing it. That's not the reason. The problem is that it require

> But it involves money changing hands, which gets certain people all up in a lather about abolishing it. That's not the reason. The problem is that it requires innocent poor people to pay for the amortized cost of apprehending the guilty absconders, while rich innocent people do not need to pay anything (since they have the funds and will get their money back).