alt Hacker News> If you have a fine of $100 for a widespread practice that costs $1,000 to collect, the state isn't going to magically allocate resource to applying it.
Seems empirically false given e.g. the immense investment we make in counter-drug enforcement.
> If you have a fine of $100 for a widespread practice that costs $1,000 to collect, the state isn't going to magically allocate resource to applying it.
Seems empirically false given e.g. the immense investment we make in counter-drug enforcement.
You're ignoring how much money and power is found in the drug enforcement industrial complex. The point of drug enforcement is not to stop the drug trade.