Bill would bar federal pension to convicted child predators
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mt., wants to ensure this doesn’t happen again and on Monday re-introduced the Denying Pensions to Convicted Child Molesters Act. The bluntly titled bill would automatically stop, upon conviction, tax dollars from going to pay for the retirement of child predators who worked for the federal government.
Daines previously introduced the bill in May 2019 and again in September 2020 at a time when Weber was still collecting the pension. Each time it was stalled in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Of course, just because it hasn’t passed the first couple of times does not mean it won’t pass in the future. What then? Denial of social ssecurity? Food stamps? Medicaid?
We should cut this congressman’s pension instead.
What about police forfeiting their pensions when they are successfully sued, or found guilty of a crime while on duty?
I agree with Ryan. Society, as a whole, place some crimes way, waaayyy above others that, in other times, were considered abhorrent. Believing that a sexual crime is worse and above taking the life of another human being? Because that is what it looks to me.
I don’t see many bills about domestic batters, femicide, drivers that kills others while 1-intoxicated with alcohol and/or drugs, street racing, and plainly mad with the world with complete disregard for the safety of others?….why we don’t see bills about themselves as politicians who dive into corruption and erodes the public trust and yet, makes the system more corrupt?
All I see is a world of politicians putting another block on top of another block for the hell of it, alienating and encasing an specific segment of the population that already paid the price for the their crime and then some to protect, (not the population because really, they don’t give a rat ass damn about anyone but themselves) their own interests.
It sucks, truly does, and I don’t know what would be our future, it surely be a constant fight…..the only ones who cares for us are us themselves and those who are around us who loves us, no one else.
I truly hope that everything changes….may not be on my lifetime….but at the least, in someone’s lifetime.
Nothing but rampant whataboutism.
In other words your money, you earn, with your labor…..is not yours.
So since the RSO registry lives on the “slippery slope concept” this bill has horrible implications in so many ways. I am retired military. Would I lose my retirement? I am receiving Medicare. Would I lose that benefit? I am receiving a monetary allotment from the VA for disability rating. Would I lose that benefit? I am receiving SSDI. Would that benefit be withdrawn as well?
If the answer is yes to any of those answers, I would be financially destitute in a matter of days and homeless within a few months, with no hope insight. This is the part the elected officials dont consider. Again creating problems where they dont need to exist.
It’s not retroactive.
@Big Al
Your military “retirement” is not a pension but delayed (and reduced) income according to Barker v State (KS) for reasons of taxation. KSC concluded that military retirement benefits constitute reduced pay for reduced current services. If this was to be federally reclassified as a pension, then it would need to be then made applicable to military retirees and their survivors (which would cause a firestorm by both considering they are under a different Title altogether when it comes to military law). They also couldn’t withhold the TSP contributions and gains I believe either since that is just another investment method for those who were military.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/503/594.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1991/65-848-3.html
Note that the penalty is NOT ex post facto— a redeeming quality of this bill.
Specifically, sexual abuse (not other registerable offenses)
They must be thinking that this added penalty will discourage sexual offending. What they don’t realize is that sexual offending is not based on calculated decision making. It is based in many cases on cognitive distortions about many things, but almost never about money. This won’t change anything about the offense rate, other than making new offenders in that specific situation destitute and more desperate.