WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court.
The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.
In my opinion being put in a cell excluded from society for an extended period is punishment enough, I know I would hate to spend 20 something hours a day looking at the same 4 walls. Also can you imagine having your employer replace you and your coworkers with prisoners because they’re cheaper, you already had a shitty job, now you don’t even have that because a literal criminal too it (ironically of no fault of their own).
If the funds for their work (being paid at least minimum wage) were being put in to a capital fund to help people who have completed their sentence re enter society of be way more willing to agree with you but at the moment the only ones profiting are the private companies “hiring” prisoners and the for-profit prison system.