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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (13911)	3/4/2010 1:41:10 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I doubt you would have supported seat belts prior to their being required. Or air bags. Or soft dashboards. Or collapsing steering wheels. Supporting them is a very different thing than supporting regulations requiring them. I certainly would have supported them (except perhaps air bags as a standard option with no way of disabling them). And again your looking at the regulations you see as the best. The best is not the issue. There are probably a literal shipload (print them out and they would fill a ship, not just a truck) of laws and regulations and enforceable interpretations of laws and regulations, about building cars. Look at the worst 1 percent, or even the worst third of regulations, not the ones that are most justified. You don't get anywhere near the level of regulation we have by only including the best or most important regulations. Another problem with some regulations is that if they work very well then they can appear to be worthless. More often they appear to be useful, but are actually worthless or even negative.