Not just POs, but any public employee/servant convicted of a crime while in office. Refund any payroll deductions or other contributions they've paid in, but bar them from retiremnet payouts or collecting anything else.
Not just POs, but any public employee/servant convicted of a crime while in office. Refund any payroll deductions or other contributions they've paid in, but bar them from retiremnet payouts or collecting anything else.
You can't just take it away. Even if they are convicted criminals they earned the money by showing up to work, writing tickets, etc. Cash them out and close the account imo.
You get caught driving down the road with a bum tailight and just happen to have $20Gs in cash (with a reciept from the bank you just left) on you to go buy a car ... they seize the vehicle you're in and the $20Gs and write you a ticket for the tailight on the vehicle you'll never see again.You get caught buying drugs, and if you're sitting in your car, they seize it and sell it at auction.
It's called "Asset Forfeiture".
How is this any different?
Absolutely not. Their pension is part of their compensation that they have worked for as part of their contract. If someone engaged in misconduct at a private company should we confiscate their 401(k)? I doubt it.Not just POs, but any public employee/servant convicted of a crime while in office. Refund any payroll deductions or other contributions they've paid in, but bar them from retiremnet payouts or collecting anything else.
So is asset forfeiture only applicable to the poor?Absolutely not. Their pension is part of their compensation that they have worked for as part of their contract. If someone engaged in misconduct at a private company should we confiscate their 401(k)? I doubt it.
The answer to the absolute unfairness of asset forfeiture is not to do more of it.So is asset forfeiture only applicable to the poor?
Funnily enough, injustices tend to go away when they start affecting those in power.The answer to the absolute unfairness of asset forfeiture is not to do more of it.
Sounds like a great way to recruit the best public servants. Who would take a job where if you make a mistake at any point in the next 20-30 years you are financially ruined?Employees of private companies are not tasked and entrusted to act in the public interest while drawing salaries funded by taxpayers who also fund their pensions.
This wouldn’t affect those in power, this would affect the various nobodies.Funnily enough, injustices tend to go away when they start affecting those in power.
You get caught buying drugs, and if you're sitting in your car, they seize it and sell it at auction.
It's called "Asset Forfeiture".
How is this any different?
While it’s true that qualified immunity is bullshit, that is protection from civil lawsuits filed by citizens and has nothing to do with asset seizures by the government of the retirement funds of their own employees.They have to know that there may be a personal financial penalty. Too often, various settlements are paid out of taxpayer funds or insurance plans and the officers committing the offense pay nothing. There was a case recently where a fired officer was ordered rehired and paid back pay, but allowed to retire with a full pension. He basically paid nothing.
It’s the result of thought, the power of human intellect, the capacity to imagine in time, to remember past painful events and picturing them happening in the future, and to have never seen past this dualistic illusion to a deeper persistent timeless state, to have identified human happiness to imagined sacred states. That eggnog is who we are, a prison we do not see.OP's been hitting the eggnog hard.