[janalsncm]

At that rate you can pay back maybe $1000 per year, so if you’re only going to live 30 more years there’s no difference in punishment between 30k in fraud and a billion dollars in fraud. Punishment is the same, so might as well scam more.

[matwood]

The movie Heat addresses this scenario in the opening scene. A guard is shot 'accidentally' during a robbery even though they didn't intend to kill anyone. At that point they killed all the guards because 1 guard or 3 guards, it had become a capital murder crime so might as well not leave any witnesses.

[f1shy]

That is the problem with draconian law. Because it saturates to death penalty pretty fast, any crime escalates pretty quick.

[matwood]

Agreed, and it's one of the reasons I'm anti-death penalty.