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Say we stepped up enforcement to the max, hiring thousands of new informants, police officers, and federal agents, and the courts tended towards punishing swiftly and harshly rather than handing down abridged sentences.
Immigration: Immigrant neighborhoods, agricultural processing facilities, farm fields during harvest, even ethnic restaurants would be raided. Hundreds of thousands, even millions, of illegal immigrants would be deported. Those involved otherwise - such as farmers or farm operations directors, employers, heads of businesses small and large alike - would be fined or jailed for employing workers without papers and other offenses. For a short time at least, some neighborhoods would go defunct and landlords would not collect rent; fields would go fallow; houses would be abandoned mid-construction as the carpenters and their helpers would be deported and the bosses fined and in jail for hiring them; the agricultural sector would probably recover, although food costs would escalate.
Copyright / intellectual property: Thousands of infiltrators and informants would be placed within small and medium-sized businesses, and their pirated software would be reported to law enforcement. Local law enforcement agencies would be given the ability to (and mandate to) enforce copyright laws as the pertain to criminal law. This could be even extended to individuals who possess thousands of dollars in pirated software and media, with private individuals given rewards for reporting the pirated content that other individuals possess. Jails would overflow with those arrested for possessing pirated materials.
Don't you already jail more people than any other country in the industrialized world? You want to ramp it up?
Turn the entire country into a prison if we have to. Criminals must be dealt with. Besides, we can force them to work for pennies on the dollar and use money to sell the products to other countries to pay off our debt
If we were to take law seriously, we would take much more time to consider its consequences, repeal bad laws, which in the end would be there would VASTLY FEWER LAWS.
Say we stepped up enforcement to the max, hiring thousands of new informants, police officers, and federal agents, and the courts tended towards punishing swiftly and harshly rather than handing down abridged sentences.
Immigration: Immigrant neighborhoods, agricultural processing facilities, farm fields during harvest, even ethnic restaurants would be raided. Hundreds of thousands, even millions, of illegal immigrants would be deported. Those involved otherwise - such as farmers or farm operations directors, employers, heads of businesses small and large alike - would be fined or jailed for employing workers without papers and other offenses. For a short time at least, some neighborhoods would go defunct and landlords would not collect rent; fields would go fallow; houses would be abandoned mid-construction as the carpenters and their helpers would be deported and the bosses fined and in jail for hiring them; the agricultural sector would probably recover, although food costs would escalate.
Copyright / intellectual property: Thousands of infiltrators and informants would be placed within small and medium-sized businesses, and their pirated software would be reported to law enforcement. Local law enforcement agencies would be given the ability to (and mandate to) enforce copyright laws as the pertain to criminal law. This could be even extended to individuals who possess thousands of dollars in pirated software and media, with private individuals given rewards for reporting the pirated content that other individuals possess. Jails would overflow with those arrested for possessing pirated materials.
Build more jails. Unrestricted private prisons will massively boost our economy. Think how many jobs it would bring. With enough prisons, we could make the rest of the developed world like Somalia.
Say we stepped up enforcement to the max, hiring thousands of new informants, police officers, and federal agents, and the courts tended towards punishing swiftly and harshly rather than handing down abridged sentences.
Immigration: Immigrant neighborhoods, agricultural processing facilities, farm fields during harvest, even ethnic restaurants would be raided. Hundreds of thousands, even millions, of illegal immigrants would be deported. Those involved otherwise - such as farmers or farm operations directors, employers, heads of businesses small and large alike - would be fined or jailed for employing workers without papers and other offenses. For a short time at least, some neighborhoods would go defunct and landlords would not collect rent; fields would go fallow; houses would be abandoned mid-construction as the carpenters and their helpers would be deported and the bosses fined and in jail for hiring them; the agricultural sector would probably recover, although food costs would escalate.
Copyright / intellectual property: Thousands of infiltrators and informants would be placed within small and medium-sized businesses, and their pirated software would be reported to law enforcement. Local law enforcement agencies would be given the ability to (and mandate to) enforce copyright laws as the pertain to criminal law. This could be even extended to individuals who possess thousands of dollars in pirated software and media, with private individuals given rewards for reporting the pirated content that other individuals possess. Jails would overflow with those arrested for possessing pirated materials.
Wouldn`t it be cheaper to just send them to the ovens ?
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