Gander
Banned
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- Apr 5, 2010
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It is not a matter of simply ingesting drugs.As the op suggested we should use that money to pay for their treatments. Also if these people get hooked on hard core drugs I may have to support their family through welfare payments and foodstamps, section 8 housing because they decided that getting high or tweeking was more important than taking care of their family.
Well, I'm making a different argument, that is, permit state and local governments to oversee social policies not specifically enumerated in the Constitution; education, healthcare, welfare, drugs, prostitution, etc. Eventually, the places with the best regulatory frameworks will emerge as a social model for success, whereas the ones with poor regulatory frameworks will simply fail and be replaced.
You want to me shell out cash to someone I do not know so they can get treatment. If I got to be shelling out cash I do not want to do it for their enjoyment.
I never said I wanted you to pay for anything. I'm just asking why you feel the need to imprison some guy because he felt like getting high. He's not hurting you.
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