Being poor should be a crime and repeat offenders should be given the Death Penalty

I am being the devil's advocate for this debate, so lets do this >:)Reasons why being Poor should be a crime:1) Poverty can be related to Criminal ActivityAreas that are poverty ridden correlate with areas that have extensive amounts of reported cases of rape, murder, alcoholism, smoking, doing drugs, etc which all end up costing the government more money than other areas. Poverty doesnt actually cause these things, instead these are often ways for people to try to escape from poverty due to lack of better more legal options. Now to correct this problem the government has created affirmative action programs, along with a handful of other initiatives to try to help people, but the effectiveness of these programs are very debatable since these programs are argued to be very expensive yet always only resolve a sliver of the overall problem. Poor people cost the Government billions of dollars each year through programs that can be seen as ineffective or by stimulating illegal drug trades that also costs the government billions of dollars. http://econlog.econlib.org..."Poor people make up the overwhelming majority of those behind bars as 53% of those in prison earned less than $10,000 per year before incarceration.""Sociologist and criminal justice scholars have found a direct correlation between poverty and crime."http://capaassociation.org...Poor people make up a massive problem to the US government, but the government isnt fixing the problem of poor people, they are simply dumping money into agencies and programs to lessen the effects caused by poor people instead of addressing the real problem, the actual poor people.2) Going to jail can help poor people get back on trackI may sound like im on crack right now but here me out on this one. Prison allows people to become re-educated while they are incarcerated, which is important because education is also affiliated with crime rates in poverty conditions. Prisons also have numerous programs to help criminals get a job when they couldnt before, it helps people get work experience too which helps them get jobs in the private sector. Prison programs help reeducate poor people so that when they get out of prison they dont always go straight back to committing crimes, but now actually work to sustain themselves and eliminate the need for the government to help them. "I think going to jail was the best thing for me," Hollenbach said. "I needed to learn and to get my head on the right track. Going to jail stopped me from getting deeper and deeper into the things I did and getting a longer sentence or getting me killed.""http://readingeagle.com...3) Death Penalty eliminates the worst offendersIf at first you dont succeed, try try again. This idea allows people to get a do over if they do not successfully re-integrate into the job market through re-habilitation programs that are offered by prisons. In fact people get 4 tries to pull through and not fall into poverty. The reason why people are killed the fifth time around is because at this point it can be assumed that they will always revert back to crime and always be detrimental to the government, to society, and to the budget. 4) Society benefits from it. There are more problems caused by poverty than its relationship to crime rates. Poverty ridden areas are prone to increased reliance on government funded programs (food stamps to name just one), and poverty rates are also breeding grounds for welfare dependency, homelessness, unemployment, higher rates of unwanted births, and higher cases of divorce which also just exacerbate the effects of poverty on people. Poverty also can mess up a person psychologically as they develop since a lot of people are born into poverty from the start. Poverty also affects people's health and the longer people live in poverty the shorter their life span is. http://www.poverties.org...http://www.cliffsnotes.com...========================================================================================================================================================Throwing poor people in jail sounds cruel and unusual, but prison does re-habilitate people to be able to get jobs, it helps educate people, and cost wise it reduces dependency on massively funded government programs that only alleviate part of the effects rather than try to fix the cause. This idea allows people multiple tries to try to get their lives on track much more effectively then they could have while they were on their own which is why being poor should be a crime and people who break this law 5 times should be thrown in jail......... Which actually benefits all of us