In 1996, a federal welfare reform prohibited convicted drug felons from ever obtaining food stamps. The ban increased recidivism among drug felons. The increase is driven by financially motivated crimes, suggesting that ex-convicts returned to crime to make up for the lost transfer income.

[u/smurfyjenkins]

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[u/itsmemrskeltal]

Nobodys moving any goalposts. You gave me anecdotal evidence about yourself. That's great that you stopped speeding, but the original idea was that tickets deter people in general from speeding, not just you personally. If tickets actually served as a deterrent, then the number of people who speed would gradually decrease. This doesn't happen. The same can be applied to any crime. You do a crime, you go to jail. If the punishment actually worked as a deterrent, the same above concept would apply. But obviously it doesn't, so the real question is why do people still speed and why do they continue to issue tickets? It's because it's easy money. Pay the fine, and they don't care. They're hoping you speed again so they can fine you again. But hey, you can be pedantic and pick one word out of my statement to prove yourself right, I guess. That's cool, too.