[Summit] Crime

[Jeffrey Cavanaugh]

No one is saying (or few are saying) tax the rich to solve ALL the
problems, just that raising taxes is PART of any sensible solution to
the deficit   And most support a reasonably progressive tax system for good
reason.  Of course, our extreme right republican party has mostly signed
pledges refusing to raise taxes, which prevents them from using common
sense.

As for RI, it is horrible what has happened here under single party rule.
 Massachusetts is a liberal state, but one that is more balanced in how it
deals with businesses, and it is booming, absolutely booming.  I wish the
national republican party would interpret the cautionary tale of Rhode
Island as meaning that they need to come back towards the center a bit to
be sure they remain a viable alternative to the democrats.

If the republican party keeps neglecting the poor and working class, there
will be a backlash, and our nation will truly be at risk for communism.

For what it's worth, I love the new bins.  My recycling takes up much more
space than my trash.  I was up to 3 little bins, beat up and with no
covers, for recycling.  Everything is so much neater now and people's
recycling won't blow all over the street on windy trash days.  Waste
Management also runs a tight ship.  They're whole pickup schedule was
disrupted by the storm and they still delivered the new bins.  Not bad.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Art Norwalk <art at norwalkcom.com> wrote:

>  We could tax the rich until they were all poor and it wouldn't solve
> petty crime or any of the other problems facing the country -- there simply
> aren't enough rich folks wallowing in gold to bail us out.
>
> However, restoring the Clinton-era tax rates on high income earners could,
> imo, make the rest of us feel that the burden was being more fairly
> distributed. This symbolic easing of class warfare could lead, in turn, to
> greater willingness on the part of the middle class to support some
> sensible combination of reduced expenditures and increased taxes.
>
> Goodness, we've come a long way from a simple car break-in...
>
> -- Art
>
>
> At 08:44 PM 11/4/2012, Emlyn Addison wrote:
>
>
>  Instead of solving our own problems with a crime watch or other
> suggestions, blaming the rich is totally ridiculous.  Guess we should tell
> those evil rich to stop teasing those wanna be thieves with expensive
> property.  Seem like blaming a women for how she dresses when she gets
> assaulted!
>
>
> As much as I seek to be self-sufficient and to work at my own solutions,
> your perspective does not take into account how this problem became "our
> problem". The problem is, in fact, massively systemic, and with many
> parents. Trace the line from petty neighborhood property crime back to its
> root causes: among others, a gross, increasingly untenable disparity in the
> distribution of wealth and a pathetic excuse for public health services.
> Those graphs really aren't lying.
>
> (And I'm always amused when Republicans insist that we are all God's
> creatures and that life, thus, is to be cherished, yet won't agree to fund
> even a rudimentary public health system. A happy, healthy population is a
> productive one--why can't they get this first grade concept through their
> crania?)
>
> Property crime isn't always just a bunch of kids looking for an easy score.
>
> Emlyn
>
> _______________________________________________
> Summit mailing list
> Summit at sna.providence.ri.us
>  http://sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us
> SNA Website: http://sna.providence.ri.us/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Summit mailing list
> Summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> http://sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us
> SNA Website: http://sna.providence.ri.us/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sna.providence.ri.us/pipermail/summit_sna.providence.ri.us/attachments/20121105/730bfda5/attachment.htm>