Is it time to to find a cure for this epidemic known as affluenza?

[ck4829]

People have been getting off from criminal responsibility because of their wealth because they had wealth since there was a concept of it. But now it has gotten ridiculous, an actual defense based off of that wealth, that someone is too rich to suffer the consequences.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/affluenza-doc-defends-killer-brat-probation-sentence-article-1.1546720

I think this has become an epidemic and it's time to find a cure. Quarantine and isolate potential sufferers of affluenza, protect them from going to their tax shelter disease dens, give them therapy by promoting they give more pay and benefits to people who work for them, make them asymptomatic by taking away their biggest symptom of their wealth and their privilege, whatever it takes, spare no expense. This affluenza is a plague that needs a cure now.

[underpants]

1. For that one brat in Texas

I think an orange road guard vest and some orange trash bags and a"litter walk" would be a start.... Actually if he was anyone else he would be in jail for a while

[IdaBriggs]

2. He is a young kid. I blame the parents.

They are apparently spreading the disease.

Best to nip the problem in the bud before it spreads further?

[jsr]

3. How much did the family pay this "Doctor" Dick for making up shit?

[russspeakeasy]

4. Start with the judge. Have her finances improved recently ?

[Baitball Blogger]

6. She probably owed her appointment to the good ole boy network.

She was quidding a quo pro.

[russspeakeasy]

10. "Pre paid acquittal". I like that.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. The antidote to affluenza is C.A.14.

That's Constitutional Amendment Fourteen, for the layman.

Edited for mental miswiring.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Perhaps you mean antidote. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Perhaps I do. LOL!

Good catch.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. 99.9% inheritance tax after $5M.

That was easy. What's next?

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Absolutely

I think children of wealthy, self-important parents should be removed from their homes at birth and given to responsible, hard working parents who will not spoil them or give them a sense of arrogant self-entitlement. No one should expect to recieve a handout from the tax payer when he steals money from borrowers, gambles with it and loses.

[Ace Acme]

12. Why dignify it by calling it a disease?

It's not a disease like drug addiction or alcoholism.

It's a moral failing.

[eggplant]

13. No, the anti-taxers (get it?) won't stand for a cure. n/t

[geek tragedy]

14. I think we should inoculate with the inheritance taxxine. nt

[Cleita]

15. Perhaps a single payer plan for legal fees and fines?

If everyone had the same access to quality legal representation and ability to pay fines and compensation, then maybe everyone would be on the same legal footing in the justice system.

[jtuck004]

16. Without the enablers the abuser wouldn't stand a chance. n/t

[1000words]

17. Amputation

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Of what? I wonder.

Should we ask King Louis for his opinion?

[1000words]

23. Precisely!

In the meantime, continue your knitting ...

[derby378]

18. Can I counteract the Richie Rich Defense with the Twinkie Defense?

If yes, will Tastykakes work just as well? I'm hungry.

[moondust]

20. Imprisonmént.

A more elegant name for the clink, the big house, the slammer.

[LiberalElite]

22. "Affluenza" was subject of a book and PBS program

several years ago.