Id ask why you'd think our kids would get any special treatment but I'm too used to hell I guess

They say Pro life but fuck over the poor kids after they're born.

Dude, you have to pay for EVERYTHING in America. They already charge us to put air in our tires, if they could figure out how to charge us to put it into our lungs, they would.

I recall reading something about some states either trying or succeeding to bring back debtor prisons.

I personally don't accept the 35% as a 100% true and pure fact, without some citations. However, the percentage obviously isn't the point here, so I wouldn't get too hung up on the exact number. Even if it was 3.5%, this general situation is still inexcusable.

For the record, most places limit wage garnishment for debts at something like 10% - 25%. Certain types of debt, like student loan debt and medical debt, are often lower or on the lower end. And lower income, with higher costs like having children, can also reduce the max %.

Last I checked near me, these guardrails exist, but I’m sure in some red state they’re allowed to garnish wages for medical debt with no restrictions.

Meanwhile if you’re rich and an Epstein co-conspirator pedophile who raped and sex trafficked children, the government won’t even arrest you.

In fact, the government will do everything it can to protect you!

Can hospitals still sell their debts to third party collection agencies? Those groups seem like exactly the type to garnish McD wages.

My brother in law had a medical bill that was supposed to be covered by insurance, but they didn't pay. (A small-ish bill of a few thousand dollars) His bill was sent to collections, and they hounded him for years, despite him having in writing that the insurance and hospital both agreed that the insurance was supposed to cover it. After 8 years, they started garnishing his wages. This is when he decided to get a lawyer involved, and he was able to successfully sue the hospital for garnishing wages illegally. The hospital had to pay out 30K.

All that to say, hospitals aren't always acting intelligently or legally.

They send it to collections, collections hands it off to a lawyer who files in court, court sends a beer date, person can't afford to take off for the day, so court issues a default judgment.

The system does not care about one's circumstances if one is too poor to advocate for themselves.

Add a dash of depression, anxiety and stress and this is a very believable scenario for anyone who is even of adequate means.

You don’t have to think it, we have plenty of evidence. The best way to fight crime is to fight poverty but that requires actually caring for others.

For profit prisons are a problem, but they're not the main problem. Only about 8% of prisoners in the US are in for profit prisons.

The real problem is state run prisons and the contracts they give to for profit businesses.

Yet then if you are a mother and don't take your child to see medical care you are accused of child neglect and have them potentially taken away or you go to jail because you couldn't afford to take them to the hospital.

Well you see, not having good insurance shows god's disfavor. It's all part of his mysterious plan that those with insurance were going to get cheated further out of their agreed upon insurance plan, and the government to be paid off by that insurance to allow it.

So while we, as Christians, especially Evangelicals and Calvinists and Baptists and the like, would love to help the poor, doing so would be to defy god's will. It was predestined that we were to be selfish assholes actively trying to hurt the poors in every way.

The Prosperity Doctrine and social darwinism decree that they are poor because that's the way god intended for it to be. I am a wealthy selfish prick because I have god's favour. Tough break. /s

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