>There is a natural law that applies to politics as much as anything: If you think you can't do it, you don't try. And you can't do it if you don't try. I agre

>There is a natural law that applies to politics as much as anything: If you think you can't do it, you don't try. And you can't do it if you don't try. I agree with this. It's absolutely true. That said, I don't agree that government is necessarily the right place to "try" things as the nature of government is fundamentally VERY different than product design or other entrepreneurial endeavors. If you have a theory about how the business world should be and you fail, the company folds and it's undone. If a law is passed and it's imperfect, bad, or horrible we'll likely have to live with it forever or nearly so. The majority of the laws ever passed are still on the books today. The Patriot Act and the Brady Bill are the only two things I can think of that had an automatic expiration. In other words, in markets there is virtually no hysteresis. When talking about conglomerates or other big, big businesses there is definitely some. When dealing with the law, hysteresis is the rule not the exception. It is for that reason I find I am always hesitant to argue that we simply have to pass "A law stating X" and that we can fix things.