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Living in Seattle, every election the ballet was filled with items like these, which sound great and have good-faith intentions that are totally in line with my
by andy_xor_andrew 3y ago
Living in Seattle, every election the ballet was filled with items like these, which sound great and have good-faith intentions that are totally in line with my own personal convictions.
But I guess policy needs to be studied--really studied--examined from all fronts, tested with the full weight of reality.
If you ban X, what replaces it? Y? Is Y really better? If you add a charge of Z to support certain industries, how does that shift the economics? You can't just assume that a $5 charge means $5 more in the pocket of everyone in that industry.
- mhb 3y agoYou can pretty assuredly assume that, when you increase the price, demand goes down.
- HPsquared 3y agoBastiat's "seen and unseen".
- drewcoo 3y ago"In good faith" or "with good intentions" mean the same. Isn't every referendum system plagued with that problem. Want a second opinion? Ask any Oregonian! The alternative is to have elected officials write and pass laws. But they're elected because of popularity, not legal prowess. "I could drink a beer with them" is almost never "they are clearly best qualified to write the rules by which we all live." As Churchill never said (but not originally), "the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."