FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls

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This is pretty offensive. Is the purpose cruelty or provocation?

Cruelty. It's always the cruelty.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... | https://archive.today/NjiSx

It's just plain money-grubbing.

list one form of punishment that is not cruel

fining people a fine that can afford while still impacting their lifestyle negativity enough that they actually notice, without forcing them to go hungry or homeless.

Cruelty. The motivating force of the modern Republican party is identify the "other" and then hurt them.

It's also to add more bad noise to try to distract from the major damage they're doing. They've specifically outlined this. Overwhelm the "enemy" - in this case non-MAGA - with bad stuff so they can't focus on anything.

Another squeeze on the budgets of the American family to further enrich the already wealthy. They just can't stop making life in the US more and more expensive for the average person. Conveniently incarceration rates are going up so there will be more Americans behind bars.

This can be avoided by not Crime'ing

This is sad. Hopefully that there is a cap at all still improves matters compared to the situation before the limits existed.

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