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Quote: rquiredusername

Yeah I don’t believe that’s true for most people who aren’t habitual offenders, which is a lot of people. Easy way to go from getting off easy to adding a contempt of court charge and warrant.

The habituals are the problem, though. Jail and prison do not bother a habitual criminal. They try to avoid it, but consider it a risk of doing business. A few weeks in jail might even be considered a mini vacation away from their yapping woman and a chance to get their body in shape a bit.

Habituals are the ones who most degrade the quality of life. It is like back in high school where the same couple troublemakers were always causing problems. But in real life the problems are crime. But in NYC they have elected politicians who care more about the criminals quality of life than everyone else's.

Quote: rxwine

Excellent!

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There's tens of billions of dollars and other junk fees across the economy that I'm directing my administration to reduce or eliminate," Biden said.

Biden added that the Federal Trade Commission had started work on a rule last week to crack down on "unfair and deceptive fees across all industries." He cited processing fees for concert tickets and resort fees at hotels as two items his administration is examining.

boy it sure would be great to make a law, no fees for tickets ... and make illegal resort fees at hotels! Except that, it is no business of the government to insert themselves into this to that degree! And for concert tickets, you'd just have no such companies anymore.

Now, I could support a law that says you can't advertise a hotel room that has a non-optional resort fee attached to it at the price that doesn't include it. And that is going on with all these shop-on-the-internet sites.

I could see making these companies promoting concerts have a box office where you could avoid fees. Of course that helps locals only.

"fees ... I'm directing my administration to reduce or eliminate" Really? By edict? Because you are a dictator?

we've got some folks here with strange motivations ... to go hooray for the Fuhrer ! What is this?

Quote: DRich

It would be interesting to know what percent of crimes are committed by habitual offenders. I would guess that number is pretty high but we could never know without all criminals getting caught every time they committed a crime.

Yeah I mean the percentage of crimes committed versus percentage of people would be considerable different though, is what I was saying. Why I phrased it as a lot instead of most.

It would be interesting to know what the difference was though.

Quote: AZDuffman

The habituals are the problem, though. Jail and prison do not bother a habitual criminal. They try to avoid it, but consider it a risk of doing business. A few weeks in jail might even be considered a mini vacation away from their yapping woman and a chance to get their body in shape a bit.

Habituals are the ones who most degrade the quality of life. It is like back in high school where the same couple troublemakers were always causing problems. But in real life the problems are crime. But in NYC they have elected politicians who care more about the criminals quality of life than everyone else's.

Understood, I think everyone gets that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/

Quote: rquiredusername

Understood, I think everyone gets that.

No, I think at least half miss it. The USA catches flack for having what amounts to 1% of its population in prison. This is a result of get-tough sentencing starting in the early 1980s. But guess what? That is when crime started falling!

People stop doing silly crime after about age 30. Even regular criminals start to realize crime is not the best business to be in, you will get caught and as you get older you have a harder time doing it. By this age criminals are either in the can or have moved up the crime ladder, for example from stealing cars to running the chop shop itself letting someone else do the boost. This is not all that much different from not wanting to go out to the loud bar as you hit your late 20s. You settle down.

Thus taking the habituals off the street a few years during their "crime-prime" has been good policy. But......liberals consider it "mean" so want it to end. The ones who make the decisions do not live in the higher crime areas so do not care.

Quote: odiousgambit

boy it sure would be great to make a law, no fees for tickets ... and make illegal resort fees at hotels! Except that, it is no business of the government to insert themselves into this to that degree! And for concert tickets, you'd just have no such companies anymore.

This is a hard one. On one hand I do not want government regs on even more things. OTOH, You sign up for a rate and get told it is not really the rate. Maybe even after you arrive and cannot change travel plans. It hurts operators who do not do the practice as when you sort "low to high" the one with the low rate but high fee shows first.

A smart operator on the strip (yeah, I know) would advertise "turn-key pricing" and say there were no surprise fees. Except maybe the strip is now for people with little price sensitivity similar to Disney where guests gripe but keep on paying.

On one hand I do not want government regs, OTOH I am tired of being told I have to buy a pen with lavender ink to sign the register as that is the only color allowed.

Quote: odiousgambit

boy it sure would be great to make a law, no fees for tickets ... and make illegal resort fees at hotels! Except that, it is no business of the government to insert themselves into this to that degree! And for concert tickets, you'd just have no such companies anymore.

Now, I could support a law that says you can't advertise a hotel room that has a non-optional resort fee attached to it at the price that doesn't include it. And that is going on with all these shop-on-the-internet sites.

I could see making these companies promoting concerts have a box office where you could avoid fees. Of course that helps locals only.

"fees ... I'm directing my administration to reduce or eliminate" Really? By edict? Because you are a dictator?

we've got some folks here with strange motivations ... to go hooray for the Fuhrer ! What is this?

What's the difference? If someone wants more money from you, they can just raise the price. No one is stopping them.

OG, you should fight for government to remove all governance from casinos. If you want practices to be hidden, let the casino make the games more like rigged carnival games. They make some people win to fool the rest of the marks. Games odds will change as will tables, cards, dice, etc.

Make it a free business instead of a fair one.

Quote: rxwine

OG, you should fight for government to remove all governance from casinos. If you want practices to be hidden, let the casino make the games more like rigged carnival games. They make some people win to fool the rest of the marks. Games odds will change as will tables, cards, dice, etc.

Make it a free business instead of a fair one.

Rigged? The last time I was at a carnival I was there with a girl I just started dating. I walked up to the basketball shot which I think was $5 for two shots. I drained the very first shot to both my surprise and that of the carny worker. I won a giant sized stuffed panda bear. I couldn't make that basket again in 1000 tries. I would probably shoot less than 10% from the free throw line on a standard basketball hoop.



I would occasionally drive around with that in the passenger seat of my convertible. The kids and women loved it, the guys just assumed I was gay.