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Good Monday morning. A couple of you have written in about this story, which regards a bill submitted by Greensboro Rep. Earl Jones to repay victims of North Carolina's Eugenics program.
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Jones appears to be unaware that the state has had some budgetary problems and is having to increase taxes. He is affirmatively going out of his way to give away free money. I wonder about his emphasis on the stated need for compensation. When will it be regarded as sufficient? When will it correct the problem?
Posted on May 9, 2005 11:15 PM
This to me seems like something you can't correct per se. Something was done to these folks a long time ago that can't be reversed.
I can see both sides of the compensation issue. I've even heard of some folks who would argue that it's demeaning to put a dollar figure on something like that.
Jone's point, whether you agree with it or not, is that without the state paying some sort of penalty any act of contrition is meaningless. I guess it would sort of be along the lines of getting a traffic ticket but not having to pay a fine or getting any points on your license. (I'm not sure I buy that argument, but if I had to make a case for that side, that's how I would go.)
I'm pretty sure most everyone agrees that this is a bad thing the state was involved in and the official expressions of remorse are appropriate. The point of disagreement, obviously, is whether those expressions need to come with cash money.
Posted on May 10, 2005 8:49 AM