County Commissioner wants to punish criminals!

Reading that headline, you might think that there's no news story here. Very unfortunately there is -- because he's very likely to fail in his efforts.

In the state of North Carolina, primary funding for the department of corrections and courts comes from the state. The state legislature determines which counties get how much money.

The courts are massively short money these days because the Democrats who run the legislature do not want to fund them. Instead, the Democrats want to fund oyster farms and other wastes of money. When it comes to one of the very few things government is actually supposed to do, they cannot find the money.

Currently, the courts are so overwhelmed they are considering putting ALL civil cases on hold, just so they can deal with criminal courts. In Mecklenburg, the court and "justice" system is so bad that if you commit murder in Charlotte in plain sight of the police, you only have a 50/50 change of going to jail -- they just don't have the prosecutors or the jail space.

So one county council member has proposed actually funding the court system. He proposes increasing funding from the county to actually pay for the courts, hiring DAs, and increasing jail space. As you might imagine, he's not going to get very far in the Democrat-controlled council.

Why? Because Democrats honestly believe in spending money on other programs and seriously do not like punishing criminals. Some will complain that it's the state's job and that the county shouldn't get involved (no matter that the crimes are still increasing).

Still others will use this as an excuse to raise taxes even more. That's what Democrats prefer to do -- use quite literally anything as an excuse to raise taxes. Hey morons, how about reducing the funding for "after school programs" and spend money locking up actual criminals?

But no, that wouldn't fit into the liberal worldview. After all, according to the Democrats in North Carolina, they'd rather allow a hundred rapists and murders go free than deprive one child of state-sponsored entertainment for an hour in the afternoon.

Posted by: Ogre at 08:02 AM

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Posted by: gina at October 20, 2005 02:18 PM (RJbeU)

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