If is a scary thought that our laws do not enforce the same punishment for all individuals.
Actually, sometimes I fear more the "well dressed criminal" people than the regular criminals. It is very scary out there because there are so many well dressed professionals who are scamming and being illegal.
Odd as it may seems, most of these "suit" criminals receive the same punishment as a poor guy that steals groceries from WalMart just because he's hungry. Sure, the concept can be argued, but I guess you understood the point. I never saw a CEO serving 15 years at the cool house for stealing 1 billion dollars and ruining the life or 25,000 employees.
Thus, I'm going to present a classic case from Romania: You might have heard of the FNI case. (National Investment Fund, although privately owned). The people in charge of the Fund got away with hundreds of millions of dollars. Just over the night. With the life savings of hundreds of thousands of citizens. After a few years the general manager of the Fund was found in Israel and brought back to the country. She was prosecuted and senteced to 5 years in prison. Same day a court I saw a court ruling where a guy that has stolen a chicken from a neighbors' was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Later the chicken in question was found in the plaintiff's yard. But the defendant remained in prison for another 4 years. Remember, the Fund's administrator kept the money, as they were never found.
Now imagine justice. It's not a singular case. If this is how the cookie crumbles, It seems people would rather steal a few billion dollars and keep the money then steal a small amount and do more time. It doesn't make sense. If our laws were harsher maybe we wouldn't have all the repeated crime.
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