November 22, 2017 08:55 am PST
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States suspend your driver's license over inability to pay court fines, costing you your job and any ability to repay
Massive income inequality, combined with Republican attacks on the taxation of the wealthiest, has produced a situation in which the state increasingly depends on extracting fines, interest and debt service from people who grow steadily poorer and less able to pay, and thus the state must turn to ever-more-extreme measures to extract the money it needs to survive. (more…)
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