What is baseless or handwaving about it? It's an incredibly simple statement. "Well.. the government decided it wanted to control the car market, it has singl

What is baseless or handwaving about it? It's an incredibly simple statement. "Well.. the government decided it wanted to control the car market, it has single handedly set it back several decades at this point." The government /is/ attempting to control the car market. This is happening at both the federal and state level. These laws specify what the market can and cannot sell, the most direct form of control available. These laws inject government money into subsidies for both the consumer and the manufacturer, an indirect form of control. The article "it" is indefinite but it obviously refers to the /market/, and not the /industry/. A word which never appeared in my original statement. Did you want to constrain yourself a little?