Dead Beat Dad's-Government Inefficiency, or, why welfare isn't so bad

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No, it would be cuel and unsual to make him responsible for the state's fees associated with making him pay...10 times the amount he owed.

And I don't think it would be a deterent either, (if the first cost they couldn't afford wasn't a deterent, why would 10 times it be one?), it would simply cause even more poor people to file for bankruptcy and be eternally destitue.

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Do you have the faintest idea of what you're talking about?

Jeez, it would be cruel and unusual punishment to make a guy pay for the state's efforts to hunt him down and force him to pay child support because it was 10x the amount he owed. It must be cruel and unusual punishment to make a guy who pleads guilty to a crime to pay for the state's expenses in preparing for trial, too...oh, wait, that's common.

You do realize that when the state requires payment for its expenditures here, it's a civil penalty and not a criminal one, right? Therefore, the 8th amendment doesn't even come into play. Don't just make things out of thin air.