Let me increase your rent so we can pay for said rehab program. If you say no, then you have no right to say anything.
- You have direct cost of imprisonment ~$60k a year
- The costs of prosecution (no idea what this costs though)
- Once someone has been to prison they are much more likely to be involved in crime again, and become a repeat customer of the industrial prison complex
- We loose a tax payer
- The perp will have no retirement fund, thus the government is on the hook again during retirement years.
- Increased insurance costs for everyone else due to a higher crime rate
I don't have the time or resources to do an accurate cost estimation but we could do some basic napkin math. Lets say 10 years in prison during their lifetime and a loss of $15k tax per year over a 30 year period (due to time spent in prison and loss of earning potential once they're out).
(10 * $60k) + (30 * $15k) = $1,050,000 loss to the State. That's a shit load of money. Crime prevention looks a lot cheaper now doesn't it?
1. That's a non-sequitur. Drug rehab programs that are part of prison diversion schemes are implicitly a matter of public policy. A single individual writing a single check is meaningless in that context.
2. "Saint or GTFO" is a debate tactic used by the foolish who think their opponent is a bigger fool.
As an aside, I have not heard that type of argument paraphrased this way, but it is terribly amusing.
I dont think you have any idea how much money is in the prison system today