#+title: List Of Unintended Consequences Of Government Policies
* List Of Unintended Consequences Of Government Despite Having Good Intentions
Minimum Wage Law in American Samoa
Minimum Wage Laws in General
California Gig Laws -Where is the evidence that gig workers wanted to be full time workers with benefits? Where is the evidence that this law is a win for gig workers? To me, a gig worker is a freelancer and every freelancer I know is a freelancer because they want to be. They aren't victims of anyone except the California government.
    The people who voted on this were neither gig workers or employers.
    We know what's best for you.
    "Actually I want..."
    I said WE know what's best.
Mandatory Solar Panels on Rooftops
Killing Rats In Vietnam -This one is probably one of the most famous ones
Alcohol Prohibition during the 1920s -It also caused the income tax to skyrocket
Eminent Domain for tearing down apartments to build a sports stadium, in a city that already has a housing problem.
The horrific changes to road infrastructure to favor bicycles over cars that only increased congestion, automobile accidents, and road casualties -i
China's One Child Policy -i
That time when the Soviet Union started a construction project to produce the most cotton in the world, but ended up creating an environmental, economical, and deadly disaster that drained the world's fourth largest lake instead.
That time when the Zimbabwe government enacted/enabled land redistribution (stealing) land from wealthy white farmers to give to poor black people. The stated intention of this policy was basically to steal from the rich and give to the poor to help the poor out. The problem is that the new farm owners didn't know how to farm, so the land was essentially stolen from people that knew how to farm and given to people that didn't know how to farm. The supply of food decreased while the demand stayed the same, and this caused the prices for staple foods (wheat & i) to skyrocket, which caused hyperinflation, and the resulting famine and economic crisis in Zimbabwe.
labor laws -Most of my former co-workers at the pizza company that i used to work at would have preferred no overtime laws
prostitution -Don't take away someone's best option
basing college education on grades
"Shoot, Shovel & Shut Up," -describing landowners' reactions to finding red-cockaded woodpeckers on their property. Under the Endangered Species Act, landowners who have a population of such birds on their property may be subject to restrictions on building and other land uses that would interfere with the animals' habitat. Therefore, it was considered prudent to eliminate the birds before the government noticed their presence.
How Cash for Clunkers may not have been good for the environment after all and increased the prices of the used cars economy
government healthcare forces healthy people to pay for unhealthy decisions
The Soda/Sugar/Nanny-State Laws -Didn't work.
The shipping law regarding Guam and other us territories
The Invasion of Privacy by the NSA
Tariffs
Rent Ceilings
The Iraq War
The Vietnam War
Subsidizing Federal Student Loans
Forgiving All College Debt -why should the debt of someone who got a high-payer job be paid off? Statistically, college graduates are claimed to make an average of $1,000,000 more than non-college graduates.
Providing government college and Basing student grades on performance for their tuition
Paid Parental Leave -i
Victimless Crimes -i
Mandatory Vaccination -In the worst-case scenario, this would put the people one step closer to living under a government that has the power to inject whatever chemicals they want into someone's body. [Prove that this would NOT be a slippery slope fallacy].
Universal Basic Income -People would eventually expect it over time, and riot when it gets removed.
The Social Security Administration -this program is bankrupting the government by over 1# trillion US dollars and counting.
The New Deal might have prolonged the Great Depression -i
Government Schools Being Used to Indoctrinate the Public -i
Mandatory Organ Donation -You can totally trust the doctors to not kill you for someone else's benefit!
    Someone should ask these people if they think it's okay to have sex with a dead body since they're dead and don't need to consent.
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* Most Frequent Mistakes Of Anti-Capitalist Idiots
Not understanding that land ownership and distribution are the main problem with the economy, not labor or "capitalism", however they define that.
Not understanding the concept of net worth, assets, liquid cash, or how market capitalization uses the fallacy of composition.
Conflating the failures of government with capitalism.
Not understanding how wealth is created.
Not understanding the concept of rights or limited resources.
Appeal to Emotion for Universal Healthcare / Free College / Student Loan Debt.
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* Instances Where People Have Blamed Capitalism For The Failures Of Government
Blaming capitalism for having to work in order to live when they should be blaming nature instead.
Blaming capitalism when Pepsi/some-company sued 4 farmers for farming a type of potato used in their potato chips, when government patents are responsible instead.
Blaming capitalism for lack of creativity in suburban when government is to blame for strict housing regulations.
Blaming capitalism when for the monopoly held by public utilities, when they are controlled by the government.
Blaming capitalism for failing to keep public schools owned by the government well-heated.
Blaming capitalism for police brutality and racial discrimination against blacks.
Blaming capitalism for the economic disaster caused in Venezuela.
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