Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t any stranger to tweeting inflammatory issues about California, and her latest try to skewer the state is filled with each factual and logical errors.
Trying to make a degree a few nationwide child method scarcity, in addition to high-profile California shoplifting incidents, Greene tweeted an image of a can of child method with a safety sensor taped on it.Â
“If this was California you could steal baby formula up to $900 worth with no consequences, but in Georgia where we respect law and order, there are now security censors [sic] on the very few cans of baby formula that can be found.” she wrote.
Greene is trying to take a swipe at California’s Proposition 47, which set the edge for felony theft at $950 (not $900). Thefts underneath $950 in California can nonetheless be prosecuted as misdemeanors.
Regardless of whether or not you consider California’s Prop. 47 is nice or unhealthy coverage, it is indeniable that Greene’s tweet has a obvious omission: Georgia really has a fair increased felony theft threshold than California. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, Georgia lawmakers elevated their state’s felony theft threshold from $500 to $1,500 in 2012. It’s among the many highest thresholds within the nation, and if one believes California’s threshold is just too excessive, they’re logically dedicated to believing Georgia’s is just too excessive as nicely.
If one wished to even additional have interaction with the logic of Greene’s tweet, the truth that a retailer felt the necessity to place safety sensors on cans of child method means that at the very least some Georgia residents don’t, in reality, “respect law and order.” If legislation and order have been broadly revered in Georgia, that will theoretically defeat the necessity for anti-shoplifting measures.Â
Making enjoyable of California’s myriad issues needs to be a comparatively straightforward job, however it’s apparently nonetheless troublesome for some.