[Summit] Crime

[Art Norwalk]

We could tax the rich until they were all poor and it wouldn't solve 
petty crime or any of the other problems facing the country -- there 
simply aren't enough rich folks wallowing in gold to bail us out.

However, restoring the Clinton-era tax rates on high income earners 
could, imo, make the rest of us feel that the burden was being more 
fairly distributed. This symbolic easing of class warfare could lead, 
in turn, to greater willingness on the part of the middle class to 
support some sensible combination of reduced expenditures and increased taxes.

Goodness, we've come a long way from a simple car break-in...

-- Art

At 08:44 PM 11/4/2012, Emlyn Addison wrote:


>Instead of solving our own problems with a crime watch or other 
>suggestions, blaming the rich is totally ridiculous.  Guess we 
>should tell those evil rich to stop teasing those wanna be thieves 
>with expensive property.  Seem like blaming a women for how she 
>dresses when she gets assaulted!
>
>
>As much as I seek to be self-sufficient and to work at my own 
>solutions, your perspective does not take into account how this 
>problem became "our problem". The problem is, in fact, massively 
>systemic, and with many parents. Trace the line from petty 
>neighborhood property crime back to its root causes: among others, a 
>gross, increasingly untenable disparity in the distribution of 
>wealth and a pathetic excuse for public health services. Those 
>graphs really aren't lying.
>
>(And I'm always amused when Republicans insist that we are all God's 
>creatures and that life, thus, is to be cherished, yet won't agree 
>to fund even a rudimentary public health system. A happy, healthy 
>population is a productive one--why can't they get this first grade 
>concept through their crania?)
>
>Property crime isn't always just a bunch of kids looking for an easy score.
>
>Emlyn
>
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