Which taxes do you support increasing in order to pay for all the extra detectives and prosecutors?
Don’t forget the public defenders, the judges, and everything else.
I support raising taxes on the bottom half of the wage earners in the country, for two reasons:
1. Murderers and victims are usually from this group, so it makes sense they should bear the cost.
2. They don’t pay any taxes now, so at least they can pay a little. I figure, there are 150 million people in the bottom half. If they each pay 20 bucks a year, that is 3 billion dollars to spend on justice and maintaining our morality.
(Yes, I think the death penalty is about justice and morality, not about deterrence. And I don’t have an answer to your question about the one witness, but I note that Rav moshe in his teshuva to the governor of NY didn’t mention that, and all my rebbeim have supported it.