Yeah, we’ve been here before:
Not only that, but we know it can work. This is from 2019:
I crunched some numbers back when that came out, and my back-of-the-envelope showed that a smaller price hike than Rock proposed had a stronger suppressant effect on a wider class of crimes than he predicted.
Chris Rock is another one of those people who I’d say is “just” a comedian.
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