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I disagree with you. Failure to get a license for a dog should never be a crime. It should be a civil matter, or at the very most, handled like an unpaid parking ticket or a fix it ticket. Do you know how much that stupidity cost local government? Add up the time spent on booking her, and the time the courts will spend prosecuting this absurdity- and if she is sentenced to jail add up those costs. People claim to want 'small government' then they advocate for nonsense like this, I just don't get it.
If I'm the chief of police I'd be telling those who want to enforce it to go arrest her themselves, and that there are bigger fish to fry and more serious crimes to go after. Oh well. Just another day in the so-called land of the free!
I disagree with you. Failure to get a license for a dog should never be a crime. It should be a civil matter, or at the very most, handled like an unpaid parking ticket or a fix it ticket. Do you know how much that stupidity cost local government? Add up the time spent on booking her, and the time the courts will spend prosecuting this absurdity- and if she is sentenced to jail add up those costs. People claim to want 'small government' then they advocate for nonsense like this, I just don't get it.
Uh...then they should contact their legislators and get it out of the penal code or local ordinances. You see, THAT is how it's done. It matters not one whit whether someone thinkssomething should be a civil rather than a criminal matter. There's the way people think it should be, and there's the way it is.
And BTW...I will continue to advocate for "small government " while following the law. Until it's changed.
This should be a civil offense only.. so get the law changed.. and as others have stated added to property tax
No one should go to jail for a dog license... no one
I am in favor of spay nueter and rabies.. so if the dogs gets picked up and they will or cannot pay,,,, that should be required before the animal is released.. and if not.. adoption time
I would be more in favor of low or no cost spay neuter and vaccination programs supported by grant money from the industry. The only time there should be a fine is if the animals comes into public purview because of an irresponsible owner
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