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I demolished @AlexNowrasteh on this claim a year ago.
I guess it's time to do it again. >>>https://twitter.com/KBrookesCato/status/1316403121833357312 …
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5/ he also tries to have his cake and eat it too > most of the research on the economics of crime focuses on how higher opportunity costs lowers crime rates. In that way, increasing legal employment opportunities can lower crime while making it more difficult for >>>
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6/ > illegal immigrants to work can push some of them toward committing crimes because they’d have less to lose. if we believe this argument (and, sure, I do!), then the influx of immigrant labor, which reduces wages, pushes EXISTING CITIZENS into a state where >
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7/ lower wages means that their opportunity cost vs doing crimes drops. A factory worker making $25/hr isn't going to steal stereos. If he's knocked down to pizza delivery at $9/hr, he might.
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