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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by cglace on Sunday December 17, 2017 @08:15AM (#15945643)
Who cares how you classify the expense. They are talking about what percent of goods/services in our economy come from prisoners. It's negligible.

When slavery was a thing It was not negligible. It made up a good portion of the southern economy.

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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by thatcat on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:07PM (#15946827)
How do you quantify the goods and services that come from prisoners? It's not like they're stamped with (made in prison), but more likely would be marketed as (made in US).
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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by cglace on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:56AM (#15960185)
Are you honestly suggesting that a large percentage of goods/services in the US are provided by prisoners or are you just arguing for arguments sake?

I doubt 1 in a million products are made by prisoners.

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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by thatcat on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:12AM (#15967892)
I was honestly curious how you might quantify that.
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