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Originally Posted by CDSmith
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It IS one's civic duty. You make some compelling points that are valid (as usual), but people out there want less crime, they gripe about the crime that goes on in their community yet when called upon to assist the process and lend a hand they balk at it like it's a chore to be avoided at all costs. The fact is SOMEONE has to show up and do it or else the system won't work, period. My taxes go towards fueling the system as well but how fast would the system go bankrupt if they had to pay everyone their full wage to do this expected service to their community?
Also, no one gets paid when they have their own court dates for various things, yet having a choice about it or not most people show up for that or they face a penalty. I'd say it's smarter to just suck it up and show up for jury duty rather than getting hit with whatever the penalty is, but that's just me. Then again I've geared much of my business so that I can take a few days or a few weeks off and my income doesn't stop just because I'm not there.
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I agree that the system couldn't withstand the full pay idea. However, there are millions of people on some sort of government assistance that are either unable or UNWILLING to work. THOSE people should be at the top of the list every single time so that instead of getting called 2 or 3 times in your lifetime to serve, only 1 out of every 2 or 3 working persons are EVER called. You know what though? I don't know, but I'd almost be willing to bet that if you're COLLECTING employment insurance you're NOT able to serve on jury duty and if you ARE, you have to say you weren't ABLE to work while serving jury duty. So you'd have to declare that and then not get paid for it anyways. I could be wrong, but that wouldn't surprise me in the least. If that's accurate, the government is taking my money to fund the court system, fund the welfare and EI programs, saying THOSE people are ineligible to serve and forcing ME to lose MORE money BY serving. How fucked up does that sound?
Those "out of my ass" calculations btw don't count the working people that DO get paid by their employer when they serve on jury duty and would be willing to do it or people who are financially secure enough to do it without hesitation.