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There was also a massive increase in crime rates around that time, which eventually led to a massive increase in incarceration rates as people voted for politic

There was also a massive increase in crime rates around that time, which eventually led to a massive increase in incarceration rates as people voted for politicians who promised to get tough on crime (which, in practice, means putting lots of people in prison). Other developed countries don't have the kind of crime rates the US does/did, so they don't put as many people in prison. No doubt government spending is higher for the reasons you state, but if we had the crime rate of Sweden we'd find something else to spend it on. Most prisoners are incarcerated by state or local governments, anyway, which do not get to print their own money.

oleganza 13y ago
How much of the crimes are caused by the state programs? When 99,9% of children in the most crucial age for development (7-17 years) are educated in state schools, isn't government responsible for those people misbehaving? Also, how many laws there are for victimless crimes? That only increases tension between armed police and other folks? How many restrictions are put in economy that keeps poor people poor and desperate?
- rsheridan6 13y ago
  There may be people imprisoned for victimless crimes, but you would have to be very naive to think the US wasn't a genuinely more dangerous place with more victimfull crime than other developed countries. Most US kids have been educated in government schools before, during, and after the crime wave of the 60s-early 90s. What restrictions keep people poor and desperate? Name a specific one, if one exists.