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5 responses to “Cats Laying Down with Dogs”

1. 

   Acbar

   January 30, 2017

   Re: “Cats laying down with dogs”: which is which?

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2. 

   LarrytheG

   January 30, 2017

   more like , Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. 😉

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3. 

   Steve Haner

   January 30, 2017

   This is more an example of a simple truth of the legislative process – your opponent on one issue or bill may very likely be a great ally on the next one. Labels can be meaningless. Changing the felony threshold is a no-brainer in my book, given the person can still get a pretty serious misdemeanor on their record and some repeat offenses will get them up to a felony. Does that make me a cat or a dog or, in Larry’s odd world, a hog?

   My comments on the other issue will be limited because I have clients with an interest, but the license suspension is a powerful motivator to pay up and I haven’t seen anybody suggest a good replacement for it. All you have to do to get your license back is start on a payment plan, and legislation is passing this year that will make that easier to do. I was also interested to learn that the fines are only part of the bill, as multiple court costs are also layered on top of them. The fine itself might be half or less.

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   LarrytheG

   January 30, 2017

   pigs and hogs… how lenient can proposed legislation be – and still have
   some potential to garner enough votes to pass?

   but the bigger picture for the “felon” is that you’re working them deeper and deeper into the criminal justice system for what is essentially economic reasons.. not criminal… and that does no one any good when you consider what happens to such individuals downstream… you pretty much preordain their fate – and society if they end up with incarceration and entitlement costs – not the mention a “professional” trained felon… from his “schooling”

   we could not be doing this more stupidly in my view. we get the fine from some of them but at what cost to society overall for the others who get chewed up by the criminal justice system?

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5. 

   TooManyTaxes

   January 31, 2017

   The $200 trigger is absurd. We certainly don’t want to send signals to people that it’s OK to steal smaller amounts or that stealing something valued at $225 is no big deal. But a felony is a serious crime and should be treated as such across the board. And given inflation and the many tasks conducted by our police, the trigger should be raised to a more reasonable amount.

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