Doc Brown Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago 13 hours ago, Big Turk said: There are no such thing as "unnecessary regulations". Regulations don't just happen just because. They come from companies doing shady things and then trying to sweep it under the rug and not get caught, usually to boost their bottom line profit and CEO bonuses. Then regulations are created to prevent them from doing that anymore. Then as always, they find a new gray area or loophole to exploit until they are forced to pass another regulation to deal with it. And so on, and so forth. I worked for multiple large global banks. Why do you think there are so many banking regulations? Because as a "cost of doing business" these banks would willfully do shady things and happily pay the fines since they are far less than the profits they made. They literally have people whose sole job is to come up with new ways around regulations and laws to make money. It's essentially legalized white-collar mafia like activities without any criminal penalties. You think these companies care about some fines? It only hurts when regulations are put in place that can cost them their charters or licenses to do business among many other stiffer penalties. So if you want regulations to be lowered, simply have companies stop willfully and brazenly doing shady, illegal things and getting caught red handed. Good luck with that. The reward is too great and the risk of doing it is far too low to act as a deterrence. Until a regulation is passed. Regulations are REACTIVE, not proactive. There's always a tug and poll from each party when it comes to regulations. There are absolutely unnecessary and/or redundant regulations. You're correct that to paraphrase we need regulations basically because of human nature. Banking especially (see subprime mortgage crisis). Obviously there's been many necessary federal regulations passed (especially during the first half of the 20th century) but you can't study every government regulation and not with a straight face come to the conclusion that regulators have run amok. There are plenty of regulations that have no usefulness that only make running a business more costly. Costs that are passed onto the taxpayer and study after study shows they hurt the lowest income people the most. 1
JDHillFan Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago 17 hours ago, Big Turk said: There are no such thing as "unnecessary regulations". On a message board overflowing with absurdities, this is right at the top of the list. Imagine how wonderful everything would be if we only had more government regulations! 1 3
4th&long Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago So is today going to be the flip or the flop from the orange asshat?
Roundybout Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 3 hours ago, JDHillFan said: On a message board overflowing with absurdities, this is right at the top of the list. Imagine how wonderful everything would be if we only had more government regulations! I know! I love that they’re cutting food inspections! Can’t wait to roll the dice on if my milk will give me explosive diarrhea or not
Big Turk Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 3 hours ago, JDHillFan said: On a message board overflowing with absurdities, this is right at the top of the list. Imagine how wonderful everything would be if we only had more government regulations! Read the whole post. You may actually learn something.
Roundybout Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 3 minutes ago, Big Turk said: Read the whole post. You may actually learn something. He won’t. He hides from posts like yours until he feels he can get some stupid quip in that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 19 minutes ago, Roundybout said: I know! I love that they’re cutting food inspections! Can’t wait to roll the dice on if my milk will give me explosive diarrhea or not Just imagine you get your way and everyone gets herded to one of your stacked storage container cities. The milk issue comes up, every resident Viva L’Revolution Square Village above you, below you, to either side gets the explosive d because everyone buys at the same govt co-op you’re all forced to use because you have no cars. It’ll be raining hot fudge! Reason # 418 to be cautious of communes and liberal future city planners.
Roundybout Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 6 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said: Just imagine you get your way and everyone gets herded to one of your stacked storage container cities. The milk issue comes up, every resident Viva L’Revolution Square Village above you, below you, to either side gets the explosive d because everyone buys at the same govt co-op you’re all forced to use because you have no cars. It’ll be raining hot fudge! Reason # 418 to be cautious of communes and liberal future city planners. Can you show me exactly where I’ve advocated for “communes” and “stacked storage container cities?” Don’t remember Jane Jacobs writing about that.
JDHillFan Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 18 minutes ago, Roundybout said: He won’t. He hides from posts like yours until he feels he can get some stupid quip in that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I responded to “there is no such thing as unnecessary regulations”. Ridiculous in the extreme.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago this is not ending well for trump. they've called his bluff. he's got a 10 high hand. they've got a full house. just hope our economy doesn't suffer much more... https://apnews.com/article/china-us-tariff-negotiations-trump-481ff4402f5c34776ffcb8ced4c8ae42
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago 16 minutes ago, JDHillFan said: I responded to “there is no such thing as unnecessary regulations”. Ridiculous in the extreme. Unintended consequences Roundy. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, Roundybout said: Can you show me exactly where I’ve advocated for “communes” and “stacked storage container cities?” Don’t remember Jane Jacobs writing about that. That was my characterization, not yours. Not everything is about you…geesh. I had asked a while back for an example of a modern city that could serve as a template for your vision and don’t ever recall getting one. That’s not to imply you needed to accommodate my request, I was genuinely curious as to what something like that might look like. In the void, the mind wanders, the imagination gets to work, and here we are. Some people like communes, btw. 1
JDHillFan Posted 43 minutes ago Posted 43 minutes ago 1 hour ago, Big Turk said: Read the whole post. You may actually learn something. It’s a shame that you sh*t on your own educational post by starting it off with one of the most ridiculous comments imaginable.
Motorin' Posted 41 minutes ago Posted 41 minutes ago 1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: this is not ending well for trump. they've called his bluff. he's got a 10 high hand. they've got a full house. just hope our economy doesn't suffer much more... https://apnews.com/article/china-us-tariff-negotiations-trump-481ff4402f5c34776ffcb8ced4c8ae42 Stop lying, you're rooting for China. 1
Andy1 Posted 24 minutes ago Posted 24 minutes ago 1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: this is not ending well for trump. they've called his bluff. he's got a 10 high hand. they've got a full house. just hope our economy doesn't suffer much more... https://apnews.com/article/china-us-tariff-negotiations-trump-481ff4402f5c34776ffcb8ced4c8ae42 What we are watching is the incompetency of authoritarian style leadership. Boss wants tariffs so everyone must get in line and talk the talk. Ignore the economic experts because they disagree with the boss. There is no public policy behind the reason for the tariffs. No one knows what the hell it’s all about. First it’s fentanyl, then it’s the deficit, then we are going to become factory world, it’s on everything from every country, etc. It’s all just whatever the boss wants and who pays him off. He is literally just making it up from day to day based on the mood of the day. On, off, on, national emergency, countries dying to make deals, still don’t see any deals, Japan tried to negotiate but they couldn’t get an answer on what the administration wanted so talks stopped. Trump doesn’t have a clue and everyone around him are afraid to do or say anything that isn’t what he wants because no one knows what that is because there is no policy. Corruption and incompetency.
Big Turk Posted 8 minutes ago Posted 8 minutes ago 34 minutes ago, JDHillFan said: It’s a shame that you sh*t on your own educational post by starting it off with one of the most ridiculous comments imaginable. It's a shame you don't have a deep enough understanding to know the truth and just spout random thoughts with no basis in reality.
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