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Re:Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do by mulmen on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:02PM (#36977391)
Nope. CAF is theft. Reallocating the ill got gains to something you like doesn’t make it right. SSA is worth funding on its own. We shouldn’t need to arbitrarily steal from people to fund it. And we certainly shouldn’t leave SSA funding up to the police.

We have fundamental concepts like equal representation and equal treatment under the law that clearly show CAF to be wrong.

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Re:Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do by maxbond on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:08PM (#36978424)
Still a good idea for eg parking tickets (I don't think they meant to offer a defence of CAF).
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Re:Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do by Gibbon1 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:06AM (#36981608)
If the law didn't allow local governments to keep fines or seized property the incentive to use the cops for tax farming would be negative.
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Re:Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do by mulmen on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:03AM (#36982338)
CAF isn’t a tax. Incentives are irrelevant. This is highway robbery by the people who are supposed to prevent highway robbery.
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Re:Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do by Gibbon1 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:46AM (#36983105)
If the feds force them to hand over the shit they steal to the Social Security Admin the incentives disappear.
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Re:Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do by mulmen on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:16PM (#36992800)
That’s treating a symptom. CAF is already laundered through the feds. If local PDs give their CAF gains to the SSA (or any other organization) they will get equal contributions in return. This is literally what already happens.
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