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| DATE | 2016-10-07 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Hey, Ruben! Plastic bag initiatives!
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On 10/07/2016 03:41 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
>
>> > it is not like guns and butter...
> It's a fair point that, unlike the production of and trade in guns and
> butter, spending directed towards state prisons has only an extremely
> weak multiplier effect, no matter how high the marginal propensity to
> consume in the larger economy.
>
> (Oh, wait, that's _not_ the point you were trying to make. You were
> having a go at that thing where, if you tell reality it doesn't exist
> consistently enough, it might go away.)
>
> I should explain, here, I'm talking about economics and public policy,
> so I'm not participating in the exchange of ideological positions you
> try to reduce nearly every discussion to. Anyway, try to teke notes.
>
>
You don't build prisons to help the economy. You build them because you
need them. The cost of prisons doesn't factor to a father who's 14 year
old daughter was just popped in the head with a 22 and lays bleeding on
the asphalt.
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