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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like the state legislature wants to copy Maryland’s failed policies in Virginia. Here’s a summary of some of the disastrous laws proposed this year.

HB378: will implement a state level net investment income tax and drive residents out of Virginia. 
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB378
HB537: Will threaten public safety by allowing violent felons that are arrested for another felony to be released without a bond. 
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB357
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Does Maryland actually have both these laws/policies?[/quote]
Maryland does have overly permissive/forgiving policies for violent criminals. They don’t have a state level net investment income tax but they have a local income tax (in addition to regular state income tax) that has a similar rate to this proposed tax. [/quote]

Eg. The Maryland Second Look Act passed 2025 allows some violent convicted murderers to request a request a reduction in their sentence after 20 years in prison. [/quote]

Seems like the Christian thing to do. Aren’t all people supposed to be capable of redemption? Isn’t the point of our prison system supposed to be rehabilitation? If someone isn’t dangerous anymore (or perhaps wasn’t all that dangerous in the first place ahem 14 year olds in the wrong place at the wrong time and tried as adults), why do we need to spend $40k per year keeping them locked up?

If the goal is strictly punishment, you might as well just execute everyone. [/quote]

Exactly. But even in AL life in prison is something like 15 years.

I lived next to a man who got life in prison because he killed someone while drunk driving. He did his stint and was out and living his life. This was in the late 1990s too.[/quote]

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