ansiz@lemmy.worldtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•The Bigger The Theft, The Lighter The Sentence?English
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2 months agoIt costs what $30k a year to keep someone in prison? Great use to taxpayer money for that $100 theft.
It costs what $30k a year to keep someone in prison? Great use to taxpayer money for that $100 theft.
This is my wife’s biggest trigger, people not responding to texts, for some reason it will lodge in her brain all day when her friends do this.
I’m the same way. But since I’ve been having to handle my elderly relative’s estate I’ve had to write a ton of checks. The clerk of court requires the use of checks to pay bills for the estate. The estate account was issued a debit card but the bank said I couldn’t use it because of the same requirement.
Seems like about every pubic US university was selling those back in the late 90’s. So overpriced, even for the time!
Assuming the link works, this is a great resource of research papers on the topic - https://www.givedirectly.org/cash-evidence-explorer/