The New York Times notes that Mexico’s jails are “places where drug traffickers find a new base of operations for their criminal empires, recruit underlings, and bribe their way out for the right price.”
Amazing. Armed guards. All the bad guys behind bars. Under constant supervision. And Mexico still can’t keep drugs and drug dealing out of its prisons. The U.S. suffers from the same problem, by the way.
If authorities can’t keep drugs out of prisons, how can they expect to keep them out…
Sin taxes are often justified by claiming that the item/behavior taxes costs the taxpayer money. By applying a tax, the government claims it can pay for the public services that the behavior produces a need for as well as increasing the cost of the behavior thereby discouraging continuation. The most obvious example is the cigarette tax. Increased prices supposedly incentivize smokers to quit or at least temper their addiction, while revenues from the tax can pay for health services.
But what…
ABC is debuting its new show “Homeland Security USA” tonight at 8pm eastern time. Presumably the show is intended to make us all proud to be an American. If the previews are any indication, I won’t be feeling very proud.
Many of the preview segments focus on busting drug runners, probably because it makes for very good television. Cutting open a Ford Contour at the border and finding bundles of some sort of drug has a sort of “gotcha” appeal. The…
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