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by pc86 305 days ago
It seems disingenuous to talk about marginal utility in this context, you're bringing up a non-controversial thing to try to make charging different people different dollar amounts for the same crime also seem non-controversial, which it is certainly not, at least based on the comments here.

You can say it's the same percentage so it's the same punishment, but you can't pretend this isn't a recent change in jurisprudence.