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...proposal would be an extreme luxury tax. Set the limit at something around $70 million and, in fairness to the union, set a minimum overall salary of around $30 million. When a team oversteps the limit, take the amount it is over by and tax it at around 50% and distribute that money to the bottom third of the league to give them more capital to compete. I see this as a win-win situation overall because it curbs the utterly ridiculous salaries like those of Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez (Yeah Sox fans, stop bitching about the Yankees when...
Frank also attacked the system of drug-enforcement as racially-biased, saying that the mandatory minimum guidelines had stiffer sentences for drugs often, according to Frank, used by minorities...
Frank assailed the war on drugs, condemning the practice of mandatory minimum sentencing...
...said mandatory minimum sentencing has chilled the ability of judges to use their discretion to fashion appropriate, individually-sensitive decisions...
...second part of his lecture, Frank proposed a series of possible solutions, including ending jail terms for use or small scale transactions of marijuana, legalizing medical marijuana, making the interdiction of drugs a lower priority for police and ending mandatory minimum sentences...