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Hanging is especially cruel because the “recipient” often doesn’t die right away. They would generally die within a few minutes from suffocation, either from paralyzation or choking.

Even a firing squad is cruel - to the shooters. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.

Just because they were a psychopathic monster doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be.

Society as a whole suffers with escalation.

 

I just watched this the other day. There was an ideal height to be dropped from for an instant death. Too high, your head pops off and the public didn't need to see that. Not enough height and you may suffer a while before dying.
https://youtu.be/Uz-SJC_HKwU

 

Plus there’s the emotional damage to Clint Eastwood.

 

Actually it isn't. The Spanish had a method involving a wooden collar with a large screw on the back. The screw was turned until the neck was broken or if the executioner didn't like you very slowly until you suffocated. In about '74 or '75 a few ETA terrorists were caught, tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Their crime, blowing up a bus full of mostly women and kids. They were sentenced to die by this method. The snowflake types in other governments (yes, we had them even then) around the world protested that it was too cruel. So, generous and understanding leader (this is sarcasm for the challenged) Francisco Franco agreed. He decided to shoot them on national TV, and did.

Some people have proven there need to be executed. The kinder and gentler folks get their panties in a knot about this.

 

Ouch!
https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/comments/o70nh0/maybe_maybe_maybe/?utm_name=iossmf

 

What sort of answers were they expecting?

Ray, when someone asks you if you're a God, you say YES!

... and when the IRS asks if you think it's okay to cheat on your taxes, you say NO!


Is it OK to cheat on your taxes? The IRS polled Americans for an answer

It would be tough to find people who enjoy paying taxes, but it’s easy to find people who say it’s their duty as Americans to pay Uncle Sam’s tax tab.

As lawmakers debate more taxes for the rich and more budget money for the Internal Revenue Service to go after tax cheats, new survey numbers from the IRS highlight the fact that most people regard taxes as a civic duty and have little tolerance for people who try to shirk their tax obligations.

Nearly everyone — 94% of people — either completely or mostly agreed that it’s every American’s civic duty to pay taxes, according to an annual IRS report released Thursday. Though that’s a one-point decline from one year earlier, the IRS noted the “perspective has remained stable since 2017.”

Meanwhile, 87% of people said it was not at all acceptable to cheat on any amount of their income taxes, the 2,000-person survey said. That’s the same percentage as one year earlier, but actually up two percentage points from when the IRS asked the question in 2018.

The responses are part of the IRS’s annual Data Book, a compendium of its activities during Fiscal Year 2020, which stretched from October 2019 to September 2020.

Tax code fairness has been a hot topic, stoked by the Biden administration’s calls for more taxes on the wealthy and an investigative series from ProPublica showing how billionaires take advantage of the tax code to shrink their tax bills.

While taxpayers’ attitudes about their obligation to pay have largely held firm, the same IRS report chronicled a continuing dip in the number of audits the IRS conducts — the action the agency takes to ensure people are paying everything they owe. Falling audit numbers have been a years-long story as the IRS’ staff shrinks, along with its budget when accounting for inflation.

The new IRS report did reveal a relative increase in audits of millionaires; the numbers of concluded audits for millionaires are up from 2018, but far below 2011 numbers.

A bipartisan deal on infrastructure spending could bring on even more scrutiny to high-net worth taxpayers. The proposed bill to upgrade roads, bridges and public transit would be financed in part by giving an additional $40 billion to the IRS to conduct enforcement, according to the Wall Street Journal. That extra funding to catch tax cheats would theoretically help narrow the “tax gap,” or the difference between what Americans owe in taxes versus what they actually pay.

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig has estimated that the tax gap could be as high as $1 trillion. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department said there was a $584 billion tax gap in the 2019 tax year.

The new IRS survey on taxpayer attitude shows most people believe it’s their civic duty to pay their taxes — but bear in mind it’s not asking about their attitudes on the amount of taxes they pay, or their feelings on what others should pay.

What’s a fair amount of tax might be more debatable. More than half (55%) of taxpayers say they pay their fair share, according to a Gallup poll from May, but 65% of Democratic-leaning poll participants agreed with the statement and 46% of Republican- leaning participants said that was true.

Over two-thirds (69%) of people supported more taxes for the rich, in a recent poll from Americans for Tax Fairness, an organization in favor of more taxes on top earners. (The Democratic/Republican split within the poll sample was roughly even.)

 

"Overlanding personified"

 

Stock Sunfire can tackle level-3 trails in my area. I can only imagine what this can do.

 

The biggest wtf is the moron operating the camera...

 

Really the solution is simple. When you pay your taxes you should have 2 options. Pay for life imprisonment or death penalty. Well keep as many criminals alive as option 1 will allow, and then option 2 will handle the rest because I have a feeling it will be over funded. Then again with current ammo prices ...

 

Ropes are reusable. Axes only need resharpening. So many cost efficient ways.

Folks ask who will do it. Simple, keep a few psychopaths around. Tell them they get to live only as long as they provide good service. Of course eventually they’d unionize and demand fewer work hours.

 

I'd give first dibs to the family members of the victim.

They'd want the dullest axe and knives available.

And probably a few sheets of paper and some lemon juice.

 

Always fun when this thread moves into it’s torture fantasy phase.

I guess we were overdue.

 

Eh, people just like to imagine that if some crimes had more serious repercussions then perhaps those crimes would become less frequent.

 

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