[quote=KeiserSozeh]I think it's mostly all about the money. Funny thing about the gov, the more they get, the more they want. You simply can not give them (in their minds) enough funding for their black ops.

And people, especially rich people, hate to pay any money. Many understand there is a public need. So what you do is make somebody else pay the bill!
And if you can punish the "bad" and make money, that's a twofer. And then you get forfeiture laws that some really love! Local cops are railing right now about their budget, they haven't got enough though their "hard" work and need local govt to step up. To which the bosses say, make the bums pay, not me.
Our esteem governor has stated, that controlling our border, against the scourge from Colorado, is going to help balance the budget. So you get increased patrol personnel, camera on poles for surveillance, and now drones to watch it. All of which costs even more. Might be our savior, in that I hear more about the cost of incarceration of non-violent. And that if we could just "sin" tax it, problem solved. But most here know I'm the uncle with the tin foil hat.:tin foil hat: but that's just me thinkin:bigsmoke: