Reform police

# Completely disentangle punition from revenue, including outlawing civil forfeiture as a special case. Police must be funded purely out of the general budget paid for by taxation. All fines, forfeitures, penalties, or prison revenues, exacted by any level of government, must go into a separate state or federal fund; ideally, a fund that is annually refunded to all tax-filing residents. No level of government should have a predatory financial incentive to exact more fines from its people and create more ‘criminals’. Dear small town, it’s adorable that you want to be really proactive about enforcing traffic laws on passing truckers, but don’t expect to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars for your own budget by doing it. Disentangle predation from all elements of government, and remove the predatory incentives to make sure it doesn’t grow back.
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"Eliezer Yudkowsky Jun 14 · 2020"