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Getting drugs from England, Japan, etc, doesn’t really help because those places get a lot of their ingredients from… China!
And, did you forget England doesn’t use dollars and cents?
As it happens – and as I suspected before checking – the current value of the Pound is about $1.23. Which means “64 cents” is about half a Pound. And so those kids weren’t paying with a lot of pennies. They were using probably a single half-Pound coin. What would be a half-Dollar to us. Or, two Quarters.
Remember, Jim Geraghty is always wrong. He comments on the inconvenience of all those pennies, and imagines that competition will lower the price from 64 cents to 50 cents. In reality, as you point out, the payment is probably a 50p coin already.
Well, at least he didn’t say that Michael Bloomberg could have given $1 million to every American.