Tuesday, December 28, 2004
The law of unintended consequences, example #7,442,381
Legislating people into buying SUVs.
Actually, sometimes I wonder if these things aren’t some sort of thinly-veiled disapproval of people who breed; after all, if we take away your ability to transport your family, you’ll have to stop having kids, right?
Heh. That’ll work about as well as not building roads in an attempt to keep people from going where you don’t want them to go. Or, say, restricting the housing supply with weird zoning to keep people from moving to town. Proven winners, those.
And yes, the bulk of this post is a thinly-veiled attempt not to go off on my normal rant about government mandated safety devices threatening the lives of your children should you attempt to decide for yourself where in the car they should sit.