tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post5439025308740575725..comments2023-12-23T20:09:27.185+00:00Comments on The Curmudgeon: Small-Time Doesn't PayPhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post-23167453604145099712013-04-10T18:09:16.925+01:002013-04-10T18:09:16.925+01:00Presumably the idea is that the state pays in the ...Presumably the idea is that the state pays in the first instance, and then when the criminal leaves prison his new debt to society can be extricated by private-sector bailiffs, with further immeasurable savings for the taxpayer. Eventually, no doubt, people will be given the choice of standing trial at their own expense or pleading guilty as charged in return for an economy-size punishment at Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post-34534188305864547802013-04-09T23:50:03.918+01:002013-04-09T23:50:03.918+01:00Well I do think banksters ought to pay back their ...Well I do think banksters ought to pay back their victims and fund their own legal defense, somehow I don't that's what he had in mind. No lawyer in his right mind would work for the possibility of being repaid (along with a slew of victims) years down the road when the client would ostensibly be released from prison and lucky enough to find an employer willing to hire an exfelon. In Madame Xnoreply@blogger.com