Jim Hightower Admirably Explained How Plutocrats and Judges Pickpocket Our Wallets

26 February 2015

Would anarchy be preferable to the corrupt system that we have now?

Maybe — at least we might get a few licks of our own in under a system that is not designed to suck our lives away (pun intended):

America's laws to deter corporate crime actually force victims to help subsidize the criminals.

First, a court orders a corporation to pay punitive damages to a victim of its criminal acts;

second, the corporate offender pays up, then merrily subtracts a big chunk of that payment from its income tax, effectively taking money out of our public treasury;

third, while the criminal is counting its tax break, the victim is notified that the punitive damage money he or she received from the corporation will be taxed as "regular income;"

fourth, that means a big chunk of the victim's payment effectively goes to replenish the public money the corporate villain subtracted.

Bad enough that corporate-financed lawmakers legalize such encouragement of criminality, but corporate-coddling judges are playing the same disgraceful game by drastically reducing the amounts that juries order corporations to pay.

The moral? — Terrorists are going after the wrong people

Maybe we just need to change the definition of infidel.

Think of this as an exercise in creating a more legitimate civics from scratch — where civics is defined as:

the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.

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Jim Hightower Admirably Explained How Plutocrats and Judges Pickpocket Our Wallets