ICE is paying incentives to local police to help reach Trump's deportation goals : NPR

Nationwide, the Department of Homeland Security is promising $100,000 for new vehicles and potentially tens of thousands more in equipment to law enforcement agencies who sign on. 

It also says it will reimburse the salaries and benefits of officers in the program – and touts the potential for bonuses based on an officer's success in finding undocumented people, similar to a bounty hunter system…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5805996/ice-pays-local-police-incentives-immigration

Republicans polices lack common sense. #isaiahmartin #debate #democrats

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RidMuMQ8ne8

 

DeSantis is refusing Biden’s IRA money - POLITICO

The Inflation Reduction Act makes Florida eligible for some $350 million in energy efficiency incentives. But Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected the funding and other measures, creating the most prominent blockade by any Republican governor against Biden's economic agenda…

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/desantis-refuses-biden-climate-ira-money-00113397

America used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it

In truth, the three decades-long shift in power to big corporations has transformed industrial policy into a system for bribing them to do the sorts of things government once demanded they do as the price for being part of the American system.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/21/america-used-to-regulate-business-now-government-subsidises-it

Michael Lewis: ‘We were incentivised to have a bad pandemic response’

"There is no incentive to prevent things," he says. "If you look at what our two societies have in common, we've given ourselves over to markets in a way that's pretty extreme. Which is to say, we strongly encourage things that pay and we give correspondingly less attention to things that don't pay. Prevention does not pay. Disease pays. It pays when Covid is all over society and corporations get to make a lot of money testing for it. It doesn't pay just to shut it down up front. And if there's food for thought, it's that we were essentially incentivised to have a bad pandemic response."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/09/michael-lewis-the-premonition-covid-response-the-big-short-interview

This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused? - The New York Times

An approach called contingency management rewards drug users with money and prizes for staying abstinent. But few programs offer it, in part because of moral objections to the concept.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/health/meth-addiction-treatment.html

Ben Carson Shows He’s Not Actually Interested in Making Cities Affordable – Mother Jones

Last summer, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson sparked a glimmer of hope among (still-skeptical) housing advocates when he spoke in support of creating federal incentives for local governments to loosen restrictive zoning codes that make housing less affordable. On Friday, he extinguished it.....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/ben-carson-shows-hes-not-actually-interested-in-making-cities-affordable/