I have always felt white collar crime should be penalized a lot more harshly

[Quixote1818]

than someone born into poverty who was probably abused and has had everything stacked against them from day one. White collar criminals usually come from privilege, have had it awesome all their life and yet they are so fucking disgusting they want to steal more from others even though they already have so much. Why any judge would not see it this way seriously makes me wonder about their character and basic understanding about life in general.

[Hoyt]

1. "Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen." Woody Guthrie

White criminals — whether vilolent with guns, or “white collar” criminals — certainly shouldn’t get less punishment. But they do.

[moondust]

2. Fight the greed...or else.

"We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity." - Stephen Hawking

White collar crime is often just a matter of stupid GREED while poor people's crime is often the result of NEED and DEPRIVATION--often caused by white collar greed.

[Demonaut]

3. I agree

[Qutzupalotl]

4. White collar crime affects more people.

Millions of people lost their homes due to financial fraud.

[Quixote1818]

6. Good point. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Absolutely. And people (like me and I'm sure others too) still feel like that justice still ...

hasn't been done for all of the wrongdoing and fraud that went on that accelerated this whole collapse (banks desperate to keep a positive spin on the housing markets, highly inflated or misstated facts, etc.).

[pansypoo53219]

5. tax fraud is theft from the body politic.

[JI7]

8. yes, but in this case the problem is white male supremacy like the judge who would not have

let a minority or women off so easily.

[raccoon]

9. I think because the judge identifies with the criminal. NT