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@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling Most likely habitat protections by government lead to habitat destruction.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling Welfare increases poverty.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling Access to American healthcare decreases your life expectancy by about 0.6 years.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling The EPA regularly dumps poisonous chemicals into the rivers it allegedly protects.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling Musk is demonstrating that NASA drastically retarded the human species' ability to travel to space.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling Every dollar of government R&D reduces private R&D by about 1.25.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling The last century of proper police has increased indictable offences by about 50 times.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling EEOC 'protections' make it nearly impossible to hire anyone.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling When Portugal decriminalized drug use, it went down.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling One intersection reduced annual fatalities from 3 to 0 by removing all signs and lights.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling Official RDA of vitamin D is roughly 1/9 of what it should be.

@Frenemy1080 @Nigmachangeling The food pyramid almost certainly lead to the obesity epidemic.

Private road networks are common in Europe. Have public roads if you hate maintenance or low prices.

Air bags almost certainly injure or kill more people than they save.

Suburbia, and thus insane commutes and the associated wasted gasoline, were created by government fiat forcing the middle class out of city centres.

If you skip every day of school for 12 years, you will end up with an 11th grade education.

Trains are vastly cheaper and generally safer to use than trucks, but trucks are subsidized and trains are not.

Rent controls favour the rich.

Medical licensing vastly increases the price of medicine, thus generally killing folk through inaction and incompetence. If you doubt, compare dentistry.

To first order approximation, modern art is a CIA plot. It is now ubiquitous, grats CIA I guess.

Paper bag initiatives release more CO2 than the plastic bags they replace.

Almost all tax-protected charities spend more on administration than they pass onto their alleged beneficiaries.

Jim claims conservation agencies spend a lot of time killing endangered species, and I have no reason to doubt him.

Fed monetary policy is the #1 cause of recessions.

"Protecting" banks from bank runs is the #2 cause of recessions.

The State arrogated inheritance to itself, which is why it can now dictate whether you're allowed to get divorced.

Nobody asked the slaves if they wanted to be freed.

Solar power releases more CO2 per megawatt than the coal-fired power plants they replace.

Minimum wage law throws minimum wage workers out of work and retards the economic growth of the affected region.

Wind power releases more CO2 per megawatt than the coal-fired power plants they replace, and also massacre birds on an industrial scale.

Science worked just fine before USG nationalized it. Now working significantly less fine; being instead exactly the masturbatory bureaucratic boondoggle you would expect.

Voters provably and reliably favour stone age economics.

Lemon stands need a permit.

Police will in fact demand your lemon stand get a permit.

Congresscritters are de-facto exempt from insider trading laws, and provably cash in on this privilege.

Instantiation of OSHA rules will in general increase both injury rates and the severity of the injuries.

You can trust every FBI investigation about as much as you can trust the Vegas shooting investigation. (...motive? Bueller?)

Every African economist from Africa begs the West to stop sending 'aid' either in money or in goods.

Both copyright and patents retard innovation.

"The overwhelming majority (almost 90 percent) of officers believe that casualties would be decreased if armed citizens were present at the onset of an active-shooter incident."
isegoria.net/2013/04/police…

Feminism is a tiny minority position: approximately 1/5th of all people agree to being called feminist. huffingtonpost.com/entry/feminism…

(Compare feminist legislation.)

Remember how Iraq didn't have any WMDs?

Poverty in America was dropping linearly until Johnson's "Great" society tried to end it, at which point it flatlined.

Approximately 30% of payroll is compliance with useless red tape. More if your business isn't already huge.

Colonial America had higher literacy rates than modern America. They started dropping around 1880, when compulsory education was rammed into being.

Government vaccines are essentially not tested for safety.

When Somalia lost its government, TV and cellphone usage shot up, infant mortality fell like a rock, and they changed from importing cattle from Ethiopia to exporting.

When a toddler was first hit and killed by a car, the government decided cars are awesome so it must have been the toddler's fault.

AIDS in Africa is largely spread by aidworkers. cirp.org/library/diseas…

@Nick_B_Steves theamericanconservative.com/2013/07/31/whe…

Standard Oil, the archetypal robber baron, could only exist because America forced a national rail network into existence.

Welfare was created to deliberately undermine the local Church.

If they were looking for voting irregularities, some would make the news every election, along with convictions.

Internet rollout in America was subsidized.
That's why European bandwidth is both cheaper and better quality.

Since 1970, so fifty or so years, the average American's tax bill has increased to more than 250% of its 1970s value, in dollars adjusted for (official) inflation.

In the last 100 years, America's prison population has increased from 150 per 100,000 to 950, and yet crime (which can only be committed outside a prison) has gone up.

The TSA costs a lot of money but has never provably prevented a terrorist incident.

I dare anyone to tot up how many assets men bring into marriage vs. women, and compare it to how many each receive when leaving.

In far too many jurisdictions, if you injure a burglar in an attempt to dissuade them from making off with your lawfully obtained goods, you will be found liable for the damages.

Before civil rights, the black bastardy rate was 20%.

After civil rights, the black bastardy rate is above 75%.

(Early in the century it hit 10%.)

Over 2/3rds of Tea Party candidates who won their elections voted along RINO party lines.

Literally every climate model failed to predict the future climate. Climatologist predictions are not officially discredited.

Cap and trade seems to have worked to stifle acid rain, though. So there's that.
unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/08/pollut…