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L.W.M. --
"Prisons are poor subsitutes
"for facilities that are better designed to deal with drug abuse and other mental health problems and issues that society prefers to ignore. But they cost money and taxes are for socialists, or something..."
Paying taxes for health care is "so-shul-ism". Paying taxes to maintain a prison system isn't "so-shul-ism".
I don't get the difference either.