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Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit by user3939382 on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:57AM (#35916400)
> If there’s a workable progressive solution to degraded qualify of life due to crime, including nonviolent crime

Here's a workable solution: stop spending over 3x what China does on "defense" and maintaining military bases all over the world and spend that money on homelessness, education, infrastructure, and jobs programs to get our middle class back.

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Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit by bradleyjg on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:42AM (#35917019)
So you’re saying is that progressives mayors have no ability to effect positive change and if we want livable cities we shouldn’t bother voting for them?
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Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit by sharemywin on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:15AM (#35916699)
I always found this chart interesting:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/us-debt-to-gdp/

especially when you look at it from the perspective of the drastically lower taxes rates of the 80s.

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