“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."
I’m morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It’s slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the “crime” of being poor.
That’s just slavery with extra steps. But we already have for profit prison work camps. So I guess it’s just a different flavor of slavery. Oh, and the ice “holding facilities” and “detention centers” because due process is only for white americans, aparently. They might start making them do labor also. You know, digging ditches and standing naked in front of them with a bulleye chest. That sort of thing. What happened to the whole world fighting against the one bad country?
Just an ugly reminder that slavery wasn’t actually outlawed in the US.
nah, prisoners aren’t slaves. they get paid… 15c an hour…
Except they literally are slaves as enshrined in our very own constitution.
I guess you missed the joke
I guess you failed your Detect Sarcasm check.
We’re all allowed to piggy back snarky comments off each other. Idk why people think I was explicitly disagreeing with the other comment. It is also a good comment.
thier prisons arnt filling up like they are used to, so they turn to the homeless.