- Target:
- governor of california
- Region:
- United States of America
Prisons cost taxpayers more than $32 billion a year. Every year that an inmate spends in prison costs $22,000. An individual sentenced to five years for a $300 theft costs the public more than $100,000. The cost of a life term averages $1.5 million.
The average spending on a student in school is 9,963 dollars. That figure is the average amount out of the U.S. Vermont has ranked number one in the nation according to spending,they spend 15,139 dollars on every student.
Your tax dollars are providing for strangers to "live it up" in jail at no expense to them but it turns out your tax dollars are paying for the crime they did.
If those figures, mentioned above, were switched that is a whole lot of money that could be spent on your child or family member.
That extra money could go towards books, educators and staff, new additions towards schools and security to protect your children from harm and invest in our future.
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