But, hey, we can feel better about ourselves because we took the money of the producers in society and punished them in a misguided effort to help those poor, benighted souls.
These people are mostly born mentally ill. Are you also against helping those born physically disabled because it’s “socialism”? If their family cant pay for treatment, off to the gas chambers, right?
The total cost of prisons, law enforcement and all the losses from addict crimes is WAY more than it would cost to give these people mental help and the tools for proper integration into society.
Imprisoning the mentally ill repeatedly with violent felons and giving them no option but to sit in the streets and self-medicate with chinese lab waste is a damn crime against humanity. The ONLY reason it continues is because many people make HUGE money off this insane policy