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Are we Moving Backwards?: Miss a Traffic Ticket, Go to Jail? the Return of Debtor Prison

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Achilles Tang2/10/2013 5:02:17 pm PST

re: #4 Goosestepping Obama Tina Brown

I don’t give a shit if someone wants to buy their kids a birthday present for their birthday over a fine or if they decide to pay a parking fine over paying for their seizure medicine. Either way doesn’t immediately affect me. What I do care about is these financial penalties ONLY punish less financially fortunate people. Not everyone who is in a bad financial situation is their due to irresponsible living.

I don’t give a shit for someone who can’t follow simple rules, and not bother to explain extenuating circumstances instead of waiting for the next arrest on another minor violation that could have been avoided in the first place.

Also, I have seen plenty of “civil” debt issues in my time, and I have seen no examples of arrest and jail for not paying a “debt collector” for a civil debt. The plaintiff can ask for judgments against income or liens against assets, or liens against those who may buy those prior assets, but I have never heard of jail for person A who doesn’t pay person B (who is not a governments). That is why we have so many lawyers.