Yup. There are simple (more liberal) answers to all of these: 1)Enforce the law as it stands. If spying on people and phone hacking are illegal (as they are) then the people concerned (all the way up the chain) should be punished for it. That's what's happening - the problem was that they got away with it for so long - and that was because of police collusion.
2)Have methods in place to help people who get into awful situations where they have to take out larger and larger loans in order to cope, and advice available to them to help them out.
3)(a)Tax alcohol usage to the level where it pays for the societal costs (hospital care and suchlike) (b)find out _why_ some people are drinking so much, and fix the cause, rather than the effect.
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1)Enforce the law as it stands. If spying on people and phone hacking are illegal (as they are) then the people concerned (all the way up the chain) should be punished for it. That's what's happening - the problem was that they got away with it for so long - and that was because of police collusion.
2)Have methods in place to help people who get into awful situations where they have to take out larger and larger loans in order to cope, and advice available to them to help them out.
3)(a)Tax alcohol usage to the level where it pays for the societal costs (hospital care and suchlike) (b)find out _why_ some people are drinking so much, and fix the cause, rather than the effect.