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Topic	Donald Trump vs. Bill Clinton
Questionmarktarius 05/16/20 6:15:01 AM #16:	Keith_Valentine posted... https://www.factcheck.org/2016/04/bill-clinton-and-the-1994-crime-bill/ Bill Clinton overstated the effect of the crime bill he signed in 1994 when he said, because of that bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate. Independent analyses have found that the bill had a modest effect on crime rates. I don't thing the correlation has the implied causality here. The 1990s were a strange time where liberal abortion policy finally paid off, right around the same time lead-reduction also paid off https://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead Fewer unwanted/redundant people being driven insane by lead poisoning. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:939237196] in Donald Tru... [t:78693222]...</cite> <quote>Keith_Valentine posted... </cite> <quote>https://www.factcheck.org/2016/04/bill-clinton-and-the-1994-crime-bill/</quote> <quote>Bill Clinton overstated the effect of the crime bill he signed in 1994 when he said, because of that bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate. Independent analyses have found that the bill had a modest effect on crime rates.</quote>I don't thing the correlation has the implied causality here. The 1990s were a strange time where liberal abortion policy finally paid off, right around the same time lead-reduction also paid off https://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead Fewer unwanted/redundant people being driven insane by lead poisoning. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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