Comment on Newsom proposes defunding police, prisons, public safety as California faces massive deficit
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months agoI am not flexing at all. It is what it is. You haven’t touched a nerve at all. Low-income people don’t grasp how much we pay in taxes since they don’t pay anything close to what we pay in taxes. It’s why they repeat buzzwords like tax the rich or the rich don’t pay their fair share when we do.
It refutes your statement because you didn’t cite anything and just babbled. You are free to post a counter cite.
Also your claim about private prisons was wrong as well. About 8% of the prison population is in a private prison.
So far everything you have said is wrong.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I don’t need to post a counter cite a 0.6% is nothing.
Omg it must be so hard to have money. You should just give it away if you’re sick of paying all those taxes.
Hahaha I know the 8% figure you’re talking about and it’s not that. The people who have been put into for-prisons in the past 2 years make up 8% of the imprisoned population, or about 13.5x the rate of people who left Oregon.
Don’t be so quick to call others wrong when you are too hahahah.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
sentencingproject.org/…/private-prisons-in-the-un…
Private for-profit prisons incarcerated 90,873 American residents in 2022, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 5%.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Hahaa you just confirmed I was right.
Now break it down by state. Your previous Florida is up to 14%, a 200% increase in the same time frame.
In fact, most the states with the highest stats are red states.
sentencingproject.org/…/private-prisons-in-the-un…
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
No, the article very clearly shows you are wrong.
You said the majority of prisoners were going to private prisons. That is false.