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Germany opposes the new bank-resolution mechanism proposed by the European Commission, generating moral and political support at home by portraying its stance as an effort to protect German taxpayers: Why should the German ants pay for the southern European grasshoppers?

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Currently, taxpayers spend about 60,000 dollars per year sending a person to jail.

There is one project in the California court system right now that so far cost taxpayers two billion dollars, and it doesn't work.

Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.

Contrary to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when you're in prison.

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