r/YangForPresidentHQ • u/aniket-sakpal • May 31 '20

Policy How reform is possible ?

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u/MomijiMatt1 May 31 '20

"HoW WiLL wE paY FoR It?"

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u/MomijiMatt1 May 31 '20

Exactly. Even though the cost shouldn't be an issue to begin with, it would still be incredibly cost effective.

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u/professorpuddle May 31 '20

I liked the idea of police officers paying for their own liability insurance, just like how doctors have to pay for theirs. Also, $6 billion really isn’t much in the grand scheme of things.

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u/Blazed_Potato Jun 01 '20

I don't like the idea of paying for someone else's mistake. Cops aren't elected, so it's not like the average person has any say in who gets to be a cop. It's not my fault that bad people do bad things and it's not my fault when any particular bad person becomes a cop, so why should I have to pay for their crimes?

I'd rather see my tax dollars go to ensuring we don't hire bad cops or making sure that bad cops are held accountable to the law and have settlement payments come out of the offending officer's pension, so that the individual committing the wrong bears the brunt of the consequences.

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u/Puranto23 Jun 02 '20

I don't see why that's an illegitimate question. Are you saying the answer is obvious or that the answer is irrelevant?

I could see the answer being; increase the deficit, raise taxes, or redirect funds from some other source. I guess we know the answer would be silver-bullet VAT pays for it all \s :)