Q: What is the harshest punishment someone can get in NYS for willful non payment of child support?

A: It is extremely difficult to make heads or tails of a totally absurd system of justice: the incarceration of young fathers for non-payment of child support especially at a time when the administration in the White House is wrecking the economy.

Without getting into the utterly incompetent manner in which this government is printing money, raising interest rates to curb inflation the printing of money caused, and causing a de-dollarization of the world's countries by shortsighted sanctions against Russia, it is no wonder men are losing their jobs. Banks are failing in the hundreds. Corporations are downsizing. People are not paying car loans (TikTok videos show how vehicular repossessions take place).

The federal law written under Reagan assumed a permanently stable and prosperous economy. Men who drop babies into their women will be on the hook to financially support their offspring in an elaborate system of court buildings containing countless judges and lawyers. The industry of child support and its enforcement brought about under Clinton was now costing the nation trillions of dollars for mom to get $100 per week. Gone was welfare as we know it.

A feature of this cockamamie system was jail. This meant that our incarcerated population will consist of criminal convicts and parents. What is the harshest punishment under this scheme is perfectly unclear. For some people, jail means three hot meals and a warm bed to sleep in. For others, it is the destruction of their careers, homes and families. As men slipped under the waves, so did women and their children.

Today, men and women still go to jail. Some states enacted a multi-sentence protocol characterized by multiple successive civil incarcerations for willful non-payment. All non-payments are willful. The inmate does not work, and that status remains that way permanently. Children are told their fathers are deadbeats, and the children stay away from their fathers.

Perhaps the harshest punishment is already meted out: kids stay away from a deadbeat. The father's link to eternity is severed, and grandchildren will grow up without a grandfather. All of this happens because mom went to government to help with her request for "support," and instead, she got homelessness. What about the kids?