Lets be clear on what entrapment is:
Entrapment is coercing or forcing someone to perform an illegal act. It's gun to your head type of stuff. "Do this or something bad will happen to you."
Presenting an illegal opportunity, repeatedly and convincingly, is not entrapment. You are simply presenting it to someone who in most cases has already shown interest. EX. the John wouldn't be in the situation if he wasn't scouting hookers to begin with. Now that he is there, he is presented with the opportunity to pay for sex, even multiple times, and accepts.
Now whether or not money changes hands is up for the courts to decide. This argument is not about whether or not cops always do tyhe right thing. It's about the letter of the law. And the letter of the law is that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, regardless of whether or not they've been accused. Accused and convicted are very different things.
Vampyer and Bond - As for the cost of education, my opinion is that government intervention has caused it to begin with, so how will more government intervention fix it? We've seen higher education costs for PUBLIC universities increase at over double the rate of inflation, and they are usually backed by tax dollars.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/ed...23tuition.html
Personally, when I started at Ursinus college in 1996, my tuition was $26,000 a year. Now the same college is over $40,000 a year. The only explanation of this is that market forces have not been allowed to reign in the costs. Every time tuition is raised, it seems one politician or another wants to quickly make up for the increase with added public funds, scholarships, grants and guaranteed low interest loans. Why would colleges and universities stop increasing the cost of education? THEY KEEP GETTING PAID REGARDLESS.
This is the perfect example of the danger of entitlements. We know money is getting wasted and we're all getting hosed in the end, but to stop the bleeding we would literally lose a generation of students because rates would not fall fast enough to account for the loss of public funds and we can't afford to do that. What we can do, however, is let these institutions know that they've reached the limit of what they will get and hopefully that will stagnate the rate of cost.