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You can already do that: just assume a bill does the opposite of what it says it does.
by jjoonathan 8y ago
You can already do that: just assume a bill does the opposite of what it says it does.
- sli 8y agoOftentimes, it even does the opposite of what the given description says. For example, there was a solar law on the ballot in Florida in 2016 that was written by oil and gas companies, that basically would have created a charge just for having solar panels. The new cost was to simply subsidize energy companies losing revenue from people moving to solar. Predictably, the bill was sold pretty heavily as a pro-solar bill meant to make solar more competitive. Much in the same way anti-NN is often sold as a method of making it easier for smaller ISPs to compete with the giga-ISPs. The word "wytai" from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows comes to mind when I think about how much of the US political process is based almost entirely on deception and tricking people into voting your way.
- InitialLastName 8y ago> Predictably, the bill was sold pretty heavily as a pro-solar bill meant to make solar more competitive. You can make something "more competitive" in two ways; kneecapping a leading industry does just as much "making competitive" as lifting up a tailing industry.