— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleBut these no-jail financial settlements, in which the money doesn’t come out of any individuals’ pockets, while they may do a lot for enforcement budgets, are virtually the only solution the state could come up with that doesn’t provide any real deterrent to individuals at all.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 79)