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graceadieu -> RE: Want to lower crime and cut taxes? (12/21/2010 7:48:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: RedStapler
The way I see it we need to do the following, in the following order:
1. Make legal immigration less draconian / Kafkaesque so that more people who just want to come here to work can do so. This will greatly reduce the number of illegal immigrants. At that point, the only people coming in illegally will be the ones who are doing illegal business.
2. Legalize drugs. All drugs. Once there are legitimate sources of drugs for people to buy, no one will be buying from the cartels anymore. Drug laws are making these criminals rich, and they are finding all sorts of ways to move those drugs through the border. Cut off their source of revenue and watch them crumble. The tax revenue from drug sales could be pumped into Social Security and Medicare, saving them from bankruptcy.
3. Tighten Border security. Once no more people are crossing the border to look for work or run drugs, there aren't many reasons left to cross the border illegally. Once border agents are no longer spending time chasing either of those groups, they will be able to focus all of their attention on the last major group of people who may want to slip in illegally. Terrorists.
Yeah, I'm pretty much of the same mind. (Though I'm sure the drug cartels will continue in some vein of criminal activity even once their drug money is cut off. IIRC, I heard on the BBC World Service that some of them have taken to stealing oil and selling it illegaly to US companies in Texas to make up for the income they've lost to decriminalized medical marijuana cultivation in the US).
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