Economics: Perverse Legislative Outcomes

[heydaralon]

Hint: you could trigger a civil war amongst the disabled population pretty easily. It's not all solidarity and understanding. You have people with genuine mobility disabilities (like wheel chair-bound folks) using their status to cut in front of everybody in lines, when it doesn't inconvenience them to sit there, whereby people with chronic pain disabilities are still standing in that fucking line -- in pain. Then you have people with non-mobility disabilities abusing the holy fuck out of disabled parking when most of them should NOT be parking close to various stores at all and should walk as much as possible. Don't even get me started on this shit.

I have nothing but comtempt for fat people who claim disability for lifestyle related illnesses. They are a burden society must bear. I saw a veteran years ago with no fucking legs at the grocery store using a manual wheelchair, and bagging his own groceries, and taking them out to his car with no assistance. He had a remarkably strong upper body. If this dude can handle his own shit, and remain with his personal autonomy and dignity, what is the excuse of most of these mid 30's BMI landwhales?

[Ph64]

Hint: you could trigger a civil war amongst the disabled population pretty easily.

Sure thing... you and me armed with 9mm pistols against 100 blind people with AR-15s. Anyone want to place bets on who would win?

[MilSpecs]

Hint: you could trigger a civil war amongst the disabled population pretty easily. It's not all solidarity and understanding. You have people with genuine mobility disabilities (like wheel chair-bound folks) using their status to cut in front of everybody in lines, when it doesn't inconvenience them to sit there, whereby people with chronic pain disabilities are still standing in that fucking line -- in pain. Then you have people with non-mobility disabilities abusing the holy fuck out of disabled parking when most of them should NOT be parking close to various stores at all and should walk as much as possible. Don't even get me started on this shit.

You have no idea who has cardiopulmonary issues or cancer by sight, but if it's any consolation for every person abusing the assistance there's another refusing it.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Hint: you could trigger a civil war amongst the disabled population pretty easily.

Sure thing... you and me armed with 9mm pistols against 100 blind people with AR-15s. Anyone want to place bets on who would win?

Yes.

[Speaker to Animals]

Hint: you could trigger a civil war amongst the disabled population pretty easily.

Sure thing... you and me armed with 9mm pistols against 100 blind people with AR-15s. Anyone want to place bets on who would win?

Yes.

We would just get them to start shooting and take cover until they kill each other.

[Fife]

Business Insider:


Congress' awful anti-sex-trafficking law has only put sex workers in danger and wasted taxpayer money

It has been 15 months since FOSTA-SESTA, a bill to fight sex trafficking, was signed into law by President Donald Trump.

The bill, pushed by Ivanka Trump and met with applause by Hollywood celebrities like Amy Schumer, was a rare bipartisan initiative. SESTA, the Senate version of the bill titled Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, passed 97-2, with only Sens. Ron Wyden and Rand Paul voting against it.

After all, who doesn't want to fight sex trafficking? The very term conjures up images of children being bought and sold. What kind of monster could look away? Something had to be done, and the two parties joined together to make sure it was.

The law, however, has been an abject failure. It hasn't done what it set out to do, fight sex trafficking, and instead has made the lives of sex workers, the very people the law hoped to protect, more dangerous. FOSTA-SESTA holds websites accountable for any sex work facilitated on their platforms. Sex workers can no longer share information or warn each other away from violent clients.

Even the smaller goal of the bill, to limit the advertising of all sex business, has failed.

Three months after the bill's passage, the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri, said, "We have shut down nearly 90% of the online sex-trafficking business and ads." The Washington Post fact-checked this claim and gave her three Pinocchios.

. . .

The lack of honesty is what is most galling. Would Americans be in favor of spending these astronomical sums to fight sex work that is completely unrelated to sex trafficking? That's unclear, but they should at least be told the truth about how their tax dollars get spent and not be tricked into believing sex trafficking is happening all around them.

Thanks a load, Federal City.

[Zlaxer]

Mark my words: in ten years fully half of the parking spaces in major parking lots are going to be handicapped.

Just fucking "self-identifty" as disabled and limb from the car to the store. Then when someone stops you, sure their ass for harassment and racism and whatever made up tort you want.

[Speaker to Animals]

Mark my words: in ten years fully half of the parking spaces in major parking lots are going to be handicapped.

Just fucking "self-identifty" as disabled and limb from the car to the store. Then when someone stops you, sure their ass for harassment and racism and whatever made up tort you want.

I was not joking about how disgusting I find this racket. Just because somebody is disabled does not mean they deserve a special spot allocated. Quite the opposite in many cases. In situations like mine, dude needs to park out back and walk, use the stairs rather than the escalater, etc. The more movement they do, and the stronger they get, the more they can manage pain and other issues.

In an indirect way doctors and legislators hasten the day for millions of Americans.

You do not need a parking permit and a special desk at work so much as to go outside to move and work. Having limitations means you should push them to move them outward.

[Fife]

[Fife]

The Hidden Costs Behind Every Government Program

Opportunity Cost

Voluntary Exchange and Demonstrated Preference

Involuntary Exchange

The Seen and the Unseen

When the state constructs a new bike lane, school, or begins a new space mission, the natural inclination of the majority is to cheer this new endeavor as progressive. We possess one new structure or have accomplished one new task than before; society has moved forward, the thinking goes.

The state is responsible for truly technically impressive or beautiful accomplishments like the Apollo missions, the Moscow Metro, the Palace of Versailles, etc. that most would agree clearly produce benefits for society.