Caught on camera: Heavily pregnant woman stages car crash to win insurance payout

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Originally Posted by Qwerty321

I'd prefer just cutting people off. So if you get done in for Fraud, you loose all government support and backing. So no welfare, no public healthcare, nothing. You've broken the trust, so now you're on your own.

Make an example of the people by hitting them where it hurts. Make them have to work 60 hours a week for the rest of their lives to just make by. It's cheap, it's effective and it's extremely satisfying

This is a great solution in theory.

The problem I see when dealing with these types of people is they have already proven they're criminals and if you cut them off from their usual tax revenue income stream they’ll most likely find other criminal activity in which to offend.

Incarcerating someone costs money, as does welfare and the cost to the community of criminal activities, therefore if public costs are going to be incurred then they may as well be punished at the same time with a lengthy gaol sentence with forced labour and the refusal to participate in labour programmes see the addition of sentence time.

If you want to punish someone, take away their freedom.