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If we're interested in justice, then bail reform is small potatoes: make fines for crimes scale based on income and wealth. It a billionaire, a decamillionaire,
by GolfPopper 4y ago
If we're interested in justice, then bail reform is small potatoes: make fines for crimes scale based on income and wealth. It a billionaire, a decamillionaire, and a minimum wage laborer should all be proportionately penalized for breaking the law. Having large financial resources shouldn't reduce financial criminal penalties to irrelevance.
- edgyquant 4y agoThis incentivized hitting your political opposition with a ton of small time charges (which is notoriously easy to do)
- mathieuh 4y agoIn many cases rich people aren’t punished in real terms at all, they actually make money. How many times have we seen rich people defrauding the public or causing them harm, only for them to be given some slap-on-the-wrist fine years later. Meanwhile, they have been investing their ill-gotten gains and making more than the eventual fines.
- watwut 4y agoIt is huge potato, because being hold in jail before trial puts huge pressure on people. If the charges are small, they are very likely to just sign plea deal while in exact same charge outside they would fought a case. Layers and Criminal reform advocates talk about this a lot, actually. Being in pre trial jail is actively destroying their lives. It is one of reasons for why most cases enver even end up in trial.