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notbad.gif<\/a>: Utah seeing massive uptick in child support payments after new law enacted that states those who fall too far behind in payments will become unable to acquire hunting or fishing licenses<\/span><\/p>\n Big kudos to the nerds who recognized the correlation between deadbeats who didn\u2019t pay their child support and people who liked to hunt and fish.\u00a0 And then good on the politicians who realized that the old system of simply arresting and throwing the book at them wasn\u2019t working, and came up with a more effective means of penalization that is actually proving to be effective at keeping deadbeats from being deadbeats.<\/span><\/p>\n In all seriousness, I do commend this line of thinking, and think it should kind of serve as a model to the rest of the country that jail just isn\u2019t always the right consequence for anything and everything negative.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I thought the fake Iron Bowl Tickets sweepstakes\/sting to bust deadbeats<\/a> done in Alabama was hilarious, but that was like 2011, and times have changed, and the context to the narrative has as well.<\/span><\/p>\n The impetus behind it seemed solid, and the results are speaking for themselves.\u00a0 If the threat of jail and the consequences of having a criminal record is what people have to look forward to facing if and when they start falling behind on child support, then most people are just going to cut and run and stay hidden as long as they can, until they swirl down a downward spiral of failure, where everyone suffers, including the children they need to be supporting.<\/span><\/p>\n But hitting them in their hobbies and vices, that conveniently have license requirements that need to be renewed annually?\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty smart thinking.\u00a0 It\u2019s nowhere near as severe as jail, but it\u2019s still seen as punishment enough, to where they won\u2019t legally be allowed to partake in the activities that they like to do, and it\u2019s proving to be enough of a threat to make them pony up and square up their debts so they can get back to the things that make them happy.\u00a0 And the proof is in the pudding, with as much payment is seemingly coming back to Utah\u2019s kids in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n Not much else to say about this, other than to once again opine, not bad, Utah.\u00a0 Creative solutions to problems that never were getting better, and showing some improvement in the process.\u00a0 The country could sure use a whole lot more of this.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" notbad.gif: Utah seeing massive uptick in child support payments after new law enacted that states those who fall too far behind in payments will become unable to acquire hunting or fishing licenses Big kudos to the nerds who recognized the correlation between deadbeats who didn\u2019t pay their child support and people who liked to hunt … Continue reading Not bad, Utah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,163,72,165],"class_list":["post-48896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-crafting","tag-government","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48898,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48896\/revisions\/48898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}