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A comment on Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers. Parent comment

Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by mkr-hn on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @11:27AM (#9576939)
Lotteries are a symptom of the problem of poor financial education. Lottery-funded scholarships are the only way a lot of kids get to college. Ban the lottery, and their parents will blow it on something else. That something else will probably not allocate most of its funding to scholarships.

edit: If this country were rational enough for the solutions proposed in replies, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:14PM (#9577296)
You don't need lottery-funded scholarships if you have universal education (as most first world countries do).
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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by ctdonath on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @01:06PM (#9577658)
The money has to come from somewhere. Taxing innumeracy seems a good start.
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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @01:11PM (#9577690)
> Taxing innumeracy seems a good start.

Taxing based on wealth instead of intelligence just seems more....civilized?

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."

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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by LLWM on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:11PM (#9578481)
"The measure of a value judgment is whether it is enclosed by quotation marks"
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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by ctdonath on Thursday May 21, 2015 @04:51PM (#9585309)
Old saw: if you want less of something, tax it; if you want more of something, subsidize it.
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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by angersock on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:17PM (#9577315)
Or, alternately, we should be funding that education by taxing companies who will ultimately be consuming those employees anyways.
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