Crime and Punishment
The New Yorker asks the simple question, 'why do we lock up so many people?'
New Yorker -- Mass Incarceration
A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens.
Quote worth sending to Ottawa.
"Ending sentencing for drug misdemeanors, decriminalizing marijuana, leaving judges free to use common sense (and, where possible, getting judges who are judges rather than politicians)—many small acts are possible that will help end the epidemic of imprisonment as they helped end the plague of crime."
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Twin Virtues: Inequality of Outcomes & Equality of Opportunity©
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Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise sustainable economic growth and fund best in class instruments of social justice.
Public policy should never be designed to decrease inequality but should always be designed to increase equality.
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
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