Reply #8: This is unconscionable. How is the father supposed to TRY to [View All]

[kevinbgoode]

earn more money to pay on the debt if he is in jail? Does the state of South Carolina provide paid wages and work to prisoners? And why would we shift the responsibility of the father - and the child - onto the taxpayers of the state, who suddenly have to provide food and shelter to possibly both of them? It makes little sense to me.

Moreover, I get so sick and tired of conservatives talking about "paying" things - as if they have any grasp that good people would love to "pay" if they had enough damn money TO pay.