I don’t mind taking the money/property from kingpins, but there has to be a bottom limit, and yes, there needs to be a felony conviction to go along, and NO, all money would go to the US Treasury, not to local police stations.
Do all that and it just may work...
asset forfeiture?
Isn’t that the IRS? Don’t we forfeit our assets to them on a regular basis? Seems like the function of the government is to see that we forfeit our assets.
The EPA has or is moving toward that very thing. They want the powers to garnish wages for a fine they impose, without a court order. So when you violate a stupid rule they have set up to try to save the earth, they can impose a million dollar a day fine and then garnish your wages, take your assets and eventually get the violating property and other property you may have, when you don’t have 30 million dollars to pay after 30 days of fines.
I agree that Asset-Forfeiture and confiscation needs to be ended. I also feel that same way about property taxes.
While I think most of what the government does with this power is BS, I still think it would be a useful tool when fighting illegal immigration if any pols had the spine to do that.
More Bush family fascism
But Reagan era guys like Yoder and Cates are just now realizing what evil they created
They were warned back then, they refused to listen
They attacked the foundation of Liberty: Private Property
Asset forfeiture is the foundation of the Communist state