“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."
I’m morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It’s slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the “crime” of being poor.



Some fits that.
All of it in context is what the Nazis did:
First the immigrants,
Then, the homeless.
Next, will be the disabled. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/
After that will be the LGBT community.
This is apart from all of the other action LA that follow including destroying the country and it’s institutions after purging the military and creating his own storm troopers