[realcleanguy]

What a crazy country we live in

[Innovative]

Does anyone believe this will work?!

I can just see a criminal going to the government, telling them he plans to kill someone, but he won’t, if the government will pay him some money.

[JennysCool]

I always thought paying people not to commit crimes was called “welfare.”

[beethovenfan]

Hey Mayor - I didn’t commit any crimes today. Where’s my money?

[Yaelle]

Paying people voted Most Likely to Commit Crimes?

When they finally do, how will you get the taxpayers’ grand a year back?

[Karliner]

“The majority of people are actually smart and rational,” Tubbs said Tuesday in an appearance at the Sacramento Press Club. “You trust folks; you give folks money, nine times out of 10 they’re not going to do any harm.”

Judging from this plan I suppose most people would be smart and rational

[Teacher317]

Liberals - always having to re-learn simple lessons that were basic knowledge hundreds of years ago.

Dane-Geld

A.D. 980-1016
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"

- Rudyard Kipling

[Seaplaner]

A $500 monthly check for low-income residents, cash stipends for men most likely to commit violent crimes...

Hmmm, this is also know as extortion, in this case, created by the representative (mayor) of the (taxpayer) victims.

And it will encourage criminals to (you have already guessed this)

...not get caught.

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[imardmd1]

Self-induced addiction to the protection racket (as a user). /s

[arrogantsob]

As long as he is not spending public money, go to it.

See: Dane Gold.

[DoughtyOne]

Well I guess he’s king of gibsmedat USA.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And here everybody else is being good for nothing.

[Del Rapier]

I have no Criminal record.

WHERE IS MINE?

[HarleyD]

“The majority of people are actually smart and rational,” Tubbs said Tuesday in an appearance at the Sacramento Press Club. “You trust folks; you give folks money, nine times out of 10 they’re not going to do any harm.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Voltaire-"Common sense is not so common."

[Right Wing Assault]

Can I have enough cash not to kill 100 children, please?

[Right Wing Assault]

By paying them a stipend of up to $1,000 per month, the theory is that they’ll be less likely to get into trouble.

Oh, come on! Just give them the drugs so they don't have to go to the trouble of buying them.

[School of Rational Thought]

While not a resident of the Mayor’s city, I would like payment not to go to it and commit a crime. Travel expenses will also have to be paid.

[I want the USA back]

I never have, so you owe me millions!

Oh, but I don’t qualify! Just looked at my skin.

[bgill]

I never get any free money. That’s not fair. I demand free money!

[Made In The USA]

Do public officials in Stockton go through a mandatory drug test prior to employment? Are the results made available to the public?