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Is there a significant black market for alcohol? Tobacco? How about caffein?Back in the day when you could get yellow jackets prescribed by your GP, there was a black market. Today there is a black market for controlled substances. So I'm little confused about what you are proposing. Doctors prescribing heroin, cocaine?
If drug companies are involved there will continue to be a black market and drug cartels. It will be cheaper to buy on the street.
Don't really get how this "analogy" thing works, do you?Legal strangers (people I allow into my home) may stay for a visit and enjoy my hospitality in my literal home for a short while, but then they are expected to leave and support themselves and not freeload off me and my family.
You can buy all those things over the counter, you don't have to get a prescription.Is there a significant black market for alcohol? Tobacco? How about caffein?
Back in the day when you could get yellow jackets prescribed by your GP, there was a black market. Today there is a black market for controlled substances. So I'm little confused about what you are proposing. Doctors prescribing heroin, cocaine?
If drug companies are involved there will continue to be a black market and drug cartels. It will be cheaper to buy on the street.
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Libertarians have been talking about decriminalizing for years. Nobodies been listening.
The problem with the free clinics we already have is that they do not provide serious mental health. Without getting to the underlining reasons for the original drug use, they go right back to using or never stop. Many addictions began as teens and very young adults. The problem is not just among the disenfranchised and poor.
There is also the problem of the drug culture. It becomes a way of life, their friends/family, where they hang out is all part of the culture. When they try to walk away they are literally walking away from their life and culture. It's just like kids that join gangs, the gang becomes their family.
Kind of my point...You can buy all those things over the counter, you don't have to get a prescription.
Same question to you, is it cost effective? Or is it sheer bloody mindedness?Interior enforcement. E-Verify, workplace raids, etc. Any sensible policy against illegal immigration would, by nature, heavily employ deportations.
There have been loads of number crunchers who have made that a forgone conclusion. Average savings is $700,000 a pop. That's on deportations. Doesn't figure in preventions.Same question to you, is it cost effective? Or is it sheer bloody mindedness?
So how much is the wall going to cost?There have been loads of number crunchers who have made that a forgone conclusion. Average savings is $700,000 a pop. That's on deportations. Doesn't figure in preventions.
I'm not sure what "mindedness" is, much less a "bloody" variety, so I'll have to pass on that.
No,no,no. A system of powerful space-based lasers that are directed at the border and swing from side to side along its length at the speed of light so that nothing can pass over the border without being vaporized.
His claim that it is more expensive to build and maintain a fence to keep illegals out than the cost of letting them in is a ridicules claim he has yet to establish. If he were able to refute your argument, he would have done so. The reason he pretends to question your seriousness is because it is easier to do that than to admit you are right.I doubt that the vast majority of people with common sense with agree with your assessment about my seriousness. I also wonder who else wouldn't mind cost-effective squatters in their home. Anyone care to share?
It isn't the immigrants we have a problem with; it's the Illegal immigrants that are a problem.Yes, we deal with the drug problems at the source, but we don't penalize or blacklist other immigrants coming in from Mexico who aren't drug dealers or violent criminals.
If you could ease off the hair trigger a little, you might see I haven't disagreed with your position at all, but rather asked you to explain it.I get it just fine. No need to stoop to personal attacks because you disagree with my position.
I said ILLEGAL immigrants. There is a difference ya know!From my perspective, I don't see any (non-violent) Mexicans coming here from Mexico as a problem, since I don't consider them to be immigrants.
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