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Missouri

ROB-ROX

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1. Republicans the want to punish the poor

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2019, 04:19 PM

May 2019

The founding fathers hated debtor prisons. I never read anything about paying prisons for incarceration expenses. If this poor state had a sound taxation system this would not be a problem. This state seems to be another republican "third" world debtor state. I am very glad I do not live in the RED states where people are required to pay for their punishment........

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