Forgiving $38,750 in Child Support, for My Kids’ Sake

   Should everyone support his or her children? Yes. Is court-ordered “child support” supporting your children? NO one knows.  Can someone tell me the what law requires court-ordered child support to be spent on the child? I didn’t think so.  The amount of “child support” ordered by family court has no relationship to the real…

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Prison Math

An excerpt from this article: http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/08/prison-math America’s enormously high incarceration rate is a relatively recent phenomenon. According to a 2010 report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), U.S. incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 ranged from about 100 to 200 prisoners per 100,000 people. After 1980, however, the inmate population began to grow…

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