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What does the tea party movement have to say about taxing and spending on the death penalty, the drug war and mass incarceration?

By Douglas A. Berman

I am having a hard time figuring out what to think about the whole tea party movement, though at times it seems that even those involved in the movement are not always sure what exactly the whole tea party movement is really about.  Helpfully, PJTV and Glenn Reynolds here provide this overview: America is on the brink of another revolution.  In a new American Tea Party, citizens across the USA are beginning to protest giant government programs that reach deep into their pockets. These programs create huge economic burdens on American families and threaten their livelihood now and into the future. As regular readers know, one of the most sizable "giant government programs" run by many states (especially so-called "red states") are criminal justice programs that "create huge economic burdens" in the course of seeking to execute certain murderers, chasing lots of drug users and dealers, and locking up many thousands of individuals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).