april 15 - usa debtor's prison day

[bill]

if you don't pay your USA taxes

[pussyhunter]

They used to throw you in prison for owing money, if they did that today 99% of the country would be locked up.

[jag]

Many countries had jail time for people who owed money

[greatpornlinks]

Hell bankruptcy gave people a second chance, beats going to jail over your financial misfortunes.

[bill]

bankruptcy is good under the right circumstances

businesses do it all the time

[ricco]

Our president filed 6 bankruptcies for his companies and is worth $10 billion today.

[Kathy_T]

No more like 99% of the population would be in jails if they got you for owning money you could not pay back.

[trafficseller]

Locking people up for a few bucks is self defeating, it costs money to house, care and feed them, let them off the debt so they can make more money contribute to the economy and pay their share of taxes.