1) Getting rid of the war on drugs would be a good thing. As it would save money and not cause as much crime (drug war causes crime).
2) You can spend money on education and training to reduce poverty.
Please keep your arguments separate rather than using one issue as a support for another. That 30K per prisoner could be spent on any number of things, or simply not collected from the public at all.
Personally, I agree with 1. That would be fantastic, and I think that there is a political ball rolling slowly towards that.
The second, well, we do spend a lot on education and training. I am not so sure that it does much more than make education more expensive.
1) Getting rid of the war on drugs would be a good thing. As it would save money and not cause as much crime (drug war causes crime).
2) You can spend money on education and training to reduce poverty.
Please keep your arguments separate rather than using one issue as a support for another. That 30K per prisoner could be spent on any number of things, or simply not collected from the public at all.
Personally, I agree with 1. That would be fantastic, and I think that there is a political ball rolling slowly towards that.
The second, well, we do spend a lot on education and training. I am not so sure that it does much more than make education more expensive.