Amid civil unrest, the global coronavirus pandemic, and a congressional stalemate on a stimulus package, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is proposing a bill to block law-breaking rioters from receiving unemployment benefits.
The bill is called the “Support Peaceful Protest Act” in a preemptive strike against potential attacks on the legislation as being anti-protest. Banks’ bill seeks to hold criminal rioters and looters “financially liable for the cost of federal policing.”
“If you’re convicted of a crime that caused more manpower and law enforcement officers to deal with it, then perhaps you should be on the hook to pay for that,” Banks told WIBC-FM in Indianapolis, per Fox News.
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It’s a great idea, in theory. How can you deny benefits to someone convicted of law-breaking rioting, when the cities refuse to prosecute?
Great idea!!!