A: We should hugely expand the use of the death penalty, and it should be the default option for any crime where there is no realistic expectation of a prisoner ever being released. The use of slave labor through the prison system is one of the most abhorrent things about modern America, particularly when you consider the vast amounts ordinary Americans spend to support it. I support some leniency for very young offenders, but otherwise death should be the usual penalty for essentially any violent crime without really serious extenuating circumstances (murder, yes, but also rape/burglary with threat of deadly force/any destruction of property that seriously endangered anyone), and probably also for most large-scale white-collar crimes, too.
Yes. Killing people is less abhorrent than locking them up forever at great economic and moral cost to society and themselves. I have no idea how you can know anything about the American prison system and not also think this.
Vosem thinks we should abolish Medicare/Social Security and Public Education. He also thinks most people AGREE with that, somehow.
