Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 6)

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  • @bryanboone7363
    @bryanboone7363 2 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    "The taxman can't reach you on the bottom of the ocean."
    I'm sure they will find a way.

    • @arthasmenethil2201
      @arthasmenethil2201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      British IRS is training dolphins to collect taxes

    • @jeremykraenzlein5975
      @jeremykraenzlein5975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Does Britain have a death tax (officially an "inheritance tax")? That would reach them.

    • @andrewternet8370
      @andrewternet8370 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Atlantis was made by libertarians to hide from the IRS

    • @JJSPARROW1978
      @JJSPARROW1978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Davy Jones Locker Tax.

    • @awordabout...3061
      @awordabout...3061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jeremykraenzlein5975 It would be quicker to list the things we don't tax.

  • @LaserBeamDynamite
    @LaserBeamDynamite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +487

    The year: 2022
    The problem: Not enough "Great Moments in Unintended Consequences" videos

    • @TheRealBrook1968
      @TheRealBrook1968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Glad they brought it back, though.

    • @dedetudor.
      @dedetudor. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You took the words right out of my mouth. More of this... It could fill a stadium

    • @jeremiahrogers100
      @jeremiahrogers100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I can't get enough of these, or the Remy songs.

    • @mustang607
      @mustang607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Too many rainbows would spoil the sky.

    • @charlytaylor1748
      @charlytaylor1748 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Excellent post syops

  • @osmbsmy.706
    @osmbsmy.706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    I caught myself mimicking the "sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions" not just in my head and having to explain a bit.

  • @Squad23jta
    @Squad23jta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    You need to make one of these each month at the minimum. I am sure the US government has made so many stupid mistakes you could have a daily, let alone weekly episodes.

    • @Seth-mu3wo
      @Seth-mu3wo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      With the incompetence of the government, he could make an episode every minute let alone every month.

    • @fraybart
      @fraybart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Any government, for that matter...

    • @dgjFOURlife
      @dgjFOURlife 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good intention, bad result

    • @01nmuskier
      @01nmuskier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The concern isn't about running out, it is keeping up.

    • @JamesEdwardTracy
      @JamesEdwardTracy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yes, most definitely! I definitely second that suggestion.

  • @diakokh2924
    @diakokh2924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    The license plate "solution" was also implemented in some parts of Tehran for the same reason. But buying a second car wasn't feasible for everyone. So, a new occupation was created. Some people would get paid to line up behind the car and push it pass the surveillance cameras, pretending the car is broken but really just hiding the license plate from the cameras. As a result you could always find people just walking around those areas instead of doing something worthwhile.

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Government will ALWAYS find a way to make life miserable.

    • @wyleong4326
      @wyleong4326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@s0nnyburnett and we humans would find a way to have fun around it. We awesome yo!

    • @biggibbs4678
      @biggibbs4678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      See the government really can create jobs

    • @georgiishmakov9588
      @georgiishmakov9588 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      so why didn't a whole industry of fake license plates spring up?

    • @diakokh2924
      @diakokh2924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@georgiishmakov9588 for an industry to spring up, the few who try it first must not be punished by the law or at least not enough, so others would be encouraged by the profit motive and not afraid of punishment.
      In Iran, using fake license plate or tampering with a real one is not a misdemeanor or a civil matter, it's a crime tried in a criminal court which is punished by a minimum of six months up to year in prison. Also, if the tampered or fake license plate is identical to one that already exist and owned by someone else, the offender has to pay all of the tickets associated with that license plate.
      Yet, there are people who still do that so as not to pay tolls and tickets, but they are usually caught which makes it uneconomical.
      There is also the social stigma of going to prison that makes it not worth the risk as well.

  • @GunMeat
    @GunMeat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    The solution with buying another car is really great !

    • @ced326
      @ced326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I thought people were gonna start stealing license plates

    • @ja8898
      @ja8898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I assumed people would just drive more on the other days because they have to go get groceries and stuff on Tuesday instead of Monday. Same level of pollution just on different days.

    • @GunMeat
      @GunMeat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ced326 But that is illegal.

    • @Filpiovano
      @Filpiovano 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The exact same thing was implemented in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the people got around it the exact same way.

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you could afford it.

  • @dustinabc
    @dustinabc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Re: FLIGHTS-
    The airlines also have to fight the bureaucracy to win access to flight routes, so they will continue to run flights that aren't great for their economics or the environment, because if they don't use the routes as regulations require, they lose use of those routes which were difficult to obtain in the first place.

    • @JETZcorp
      @JETZcorp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I don't think that's the case anymore. That was definitely a thing back in the day, but it's the main thing that was opened up in the Carter era deregulation. Airlines can basically fly wherever they want now, except that foreign carriers aren't allowed to conduct domestic flights. This change was the biggest thing that allowed the cost of air travel to plummet, and made business models like Southwest possible.

    • @spencergraham-thille9896
      @spencergraham-thille9896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I never understand why gate-rights weren't just sold to the highest bidder.

    • @lq7777
      @lq7777 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JETZcorp It may not be a government regulation but I remember reading an article about that very issue during the height of COVID.
      Basically, it said that airlines would fly ghost planes rather than give up their gates because if they stopped using a gate, another airline could swoop in and grab it and they wouldn’t be able to get it back when things normalize.

    • @kevikiru
      @kevikiru หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@spencergraham-thille9896 Well, in that case, bigger airlines would just outbid every new entrant to make their business unviable.

  • @Ryan-is-me
    @Ryan-is-me 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    "The tax man can't reach you on the bottom of the ocean"
    Tax man: Hold my duty-free beer

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They tax the insurance money. Or tax ship-builders based upon how many ships they sell?

  • @avmail7097
    @avmail7097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Everything in 2020-2022 was a ludicrous unintended consequence

    • @mustang607
      @mustang607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Unintended?

    • @chrimony
      @chrimony 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mustang607 Indeed. Event 201.

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bold of you to assume they didn't intend for us to be miserable. We are the carbon they want to reduce.

  • @damiengrief
    @damiengrief 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I love this series so much.

  • @fearthehoneybadger
    @fearthehoneybadger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    How about shutting down domestic oil production which just caused a mammoth increase in prices and did nothing to help the environment due to supplies being acquired from other countries with terrible environmental protection laws.

    • @Arbiter099
      @Arbiter099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Nah, those are intentional consequences

    • @Redmenace96
      @Redmenace96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You missed the press conference? White House sez they have done nothing to diminish or discourage domestic production! Glad I know that, now. Was so misled by fake news......
      (by the way, we don't need more wells/drilling, oil co need permits to build new refineries. The bottleneck is at the refinery capacity.)

    • @chrimony
      @chrimony 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Redmenace96 Q: How do you know Jen Psaki is lying?
      .
      .
      .
      .
      A: Yes.

    • @jimlovesgina
      @jimlovesgina 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Domestic oil shut itself down because the price of oil was too low.

    • @ZarkowsWorld
      @ZarkowsWorld 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Environment-groups has been infiltrated by first Soviet and then Russian operatives since the 60ies, pushing for shutdown of nuclear plants - the safest way to get a lot of electricity - making Germany return to burning a lot of coal and using gas...

  • @deecee784
    @deecee784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    Regarding the British boat and Lighthouse taxes. It also caused some lighthouses to be closed --- which got some people drowned. Also, shipments of goods from mainland europe plummeted in frequency since every boat owner waited for their ships to be "packed to the rafters" before they set sail. Many exporters from France cut their normal schedules and sailed only when packed ... resulting in one ship to England per day instead of two to four.
    Love this series ---- maybe it could be renamed politicians are morons 101.

    • @OchitheWarloch
      @OchitheWarloch 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't seem to find a source for the second one, where did you find this info?

    • @deecee784
      @deecee784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@OchitheWarloch Sorry about the lateness of response. I found out about these fiascos in one of my Economics courses, many years ago.

    • @OchitheWarloch
      @OchitheWarloch 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deecee784 No worries, I see thank you!

  • @SurrealKeenan
    @SurrealKeenan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Gonna be honest, I loved my ghost flights. It was so nice being able to switch seats whenever I wanted. I'll miss that

    • @Joe_for_real
      @Joe_for_real 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I mean, it was only $60 billion. Doesn't even seem like that much any more.

    • @jumpanama
      @jumpanama 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Right? That's gonna be my weekly paycheck in 2024

    • @JETZcorp
      @JETZcorp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nothing like having your own private 767.

    • @lkjkhfggd
      @lkjkhfggd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I got to ride one too. The captain was hilarious during the flight. So many good jokes.

    • @poodlescone9700
      @poodlescone9700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I flew a United flight a month after 9/11. I had a row of three seats to myself to Asia. It was sweet.

  • @senseofmindshow
    @senseofmindshow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    “Number 2. The problem: Britain needs money!” That’s just too good.

  • @g.mantua1195
    @g.mantua1195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Government isn't the solution, it's the problem.

    • @mustang607
      @mustang607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yet the government solution always seems to be, more government.

    • @themonsterunderyourbed9408
      @themonsterunderyourbed9408 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mustang607 *liberal government solutions.

    • @tuseroni6085
      @tuseroni6085 ปีที่แล้ว

      "to government, the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems"

    • @BorisEysbroek
      @BorisEysbroek ปีที่แล้ว

      No, voters are the problem. Those incompetent politicians didn't materialize out of thin air. As long as people keep acting on their feelings in stead of empirical evidence, nothing will change.

  • @f15stroke
    @f15stroke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I flew from Tucson to Denver in April, 2020 and there were 3 of us on the Southwest 737. Three.

    • @tootired76
      @tootired76 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm sure Greta approved!!

  • @Lunch_Peak
    @Lunch_Peak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As an airline Captain in 2020 I remember flying from Seattle to El Paso and back to Seattle one day with zero passengers onboard both flights.

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 ปีที่แล้ว

      And you got your flight hours and pay.

  • @ubersham
    @ubersham 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Best series on TH-cam

  • @vulgoalias4050
    @vulgoalias4050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love this series, please, keep producing it.

  • @alechenry1483
    @alechenry1483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I'm surprised Cash for Clunkers hasn't been mentioned in the series yet.

    • @jefferydebbink282
      @jefferydebbink282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh I’m sure it will at some point.

    • @bloodleader5
      @bloodleader5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or Kars 4 Kids.

    • @rashakor
      @rashakor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was. Volume 5 i believe.

    • @michaelbujaki2462
      @michaelbujaki2462 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is now in Episode 9 out of 15.

    • @gblargg
      @gblargg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bloodleader5 Uh oh, we're not supposed to talk about them.

  • @benjaminhoward8330
    @benjaminhoward8330 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "The tax man can't reach you on the bottom of the ocean." I gotta tell my wife we're moving.

  • @TheComputerCowboy
    @TheComputerCowboy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I took a number of ghost flights in 2020. One one flight I was one of two passengers - and I assumed the other was an air marshal; he looked the part. Despite the full crew of Alaskan Airlines flight attendants, service still sucked.

  • @justincase2281
    @justincase2281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love these. Keep 'em coming!! 👍

  • @johnborden2267
    @johnborden2267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Keep these great videos coming - there's certainly no shortage of subject matter you can choose from!

  • @bradleysherman3103
    @bradleysherman3103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I freaking love these... make more.

  • @1990gollum
    @1990gollum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The license plate solution was also implemented in Bogota, Colombia. The only difference is that it prohibits drivers from using their cars for literally half of the year. Additionally, several roads were closed and forcefully converted to bicycle-only spaces, and taxation for owning a vehicle increased. When challenged about the fact that car owners were being forced to pay more at the same time that their conditions were deteriorating, the mayor answered with a straight face: "well, if you do not like paying taxes, I suggest you sell your cars."

    • @jacaredosvudu1638
      @jacaredosvudu1638 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No shit you guys are under semi-civil war

  • @RezaQin
    @RezaQin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I have learned that government causes most of my problems ever since I picked up my first pay check and saw how much I was getting taxed.

    • @majdavlk649
      @majdavlk649 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i realized that even before that, when i was unable to go get a paycheck because government forbid me to get a job

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you don’t use any of the benefits that those taxes result in?

  • @mikeb4481
    @mikeb4481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Regarding sunken ships and the tax man: ever heard of salvagers bringing up treasure and a government stepping in to claim it.

  • @characarosandi1589
    @characarosandi1589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    PLEASE MORE OF THESE 🙏🙏

  • @kcgunesq
    @kcgunesq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If I taught civics or government classes in grades 6-12, I would absolutely make these videos part of the curriculum.

  • @mrt1426
    @mrt1426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    We need one of these on all the COVID money that was handed out.

  • @stevetheduck1425
    @stevetheduck1425 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The car thing was solved in Japan by building most homes without a space for a car, and no car parks in housing areas.
    Public transport in Japan is infinitely well joined-up, cities are all 1 to 2 hours away by train, you wait only 15 minutes at the remotest bus stop, and now no-one needs a car.

  • @thewiirocks
    @thewiirocks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I think it’s worth noting that the airlines became good little Capitalists and turned these ghost flights into cargo runs. This made perfect economic sense as shipping costs skyrocketed as lockdowns and “pay to stay home” incentives reduced long-haul trucking availability. You can actually see photos out there of the seats holding bins instead of people. So in some ways, the airlines were the *solution* to the government ineptitude.

  • @mustang607
    @mustang607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "The taxman can't reach you on the bottom of the ocean."

    • @foobar201
      @foobar201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isn't that the plot to Bioshock?

    • @joshcarlson9352
      @joshcarlson9352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ATF can't find you there either.

    • @Arbiter099
      @Arbiter099 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ... yet...

    • @arthasmenethil2201
      @arthasmenethil2201 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're hiring mermaids.

    • @Teverell
      @Teverell 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Solution: Scuba gear

  • @HiwasseeRiver
    @HiwasseeRiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I nominate corn ethanol for "Great Moments in Unintended Consequences" In a world with a potential grain shortage the USA converts 140,000,000 tons per year of corn into a low energy fuel that reduces miles per gallon - some people starve, others burn more net fuel.

  • @Gojiro7
    @Gojiro7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    in this instance, none of these were good intentions, just idiotic greed so deep you'd drown in it

  • @q0w1e2r3t4y5
    @q0w1e2r3t4y5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    love this series. it's just ... there must be much much more of these.

  • @sqike001ton
    @sqike001ton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My best friend was on 337 flight with him and 9 crew on his way between duty stations he sat in first class with the stewardess drinking the good wine for 5 hours

  • @cheeses_fries
    @cheeses_fries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love this series!

  • @chuckman2219
    @chuckman2219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Lets see how many others we could add to this list: Cash for Clunkers , Luxury Tax (especially for the yacht industry) , $10,000 Cash reporting rule non sense, Civil asset forfeiture , Patriot Act, CAFE standards... just to name a few

    • @anonygent
      @anonygent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was going to mention the yacht tax. Someone needs to harp on that once a month to keep it fresh in Democrats' minds.

    • @toxaq
      @toxaq 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're in luck, the yacht tax has been covered th-cam.com/video/1WRDwCep25k/w-d-xo.html

    • @Hyper_Drud
      @Hyper_Drud 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Luxury Tax was covered in volume 2.

  • @joelhanson5304
    @joelhanson5304 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    keep em coming. they're great!

  • @hagerty1952
    @hagerty1952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The British ship tax sounds like a similar "solution" they came up with in the postwar period to tax cars. They wanted to tax big engines (to limit fuel consumption) but since the MP's are hardly tech savvy, they only taxed bore size. This lead to some outrageous English engines with tiny bores and very long strokes, making them very inefficient, consuming more gas than a well-designed engine of the same total displacement.

  • @marscaleb
    @marscaleb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The one about the ship tax made me wonder if you guys were going to d one about the stamp act or the Boston Tea Party, which honestly qualify for this video series.

  • @Thatguy-sm8cw
    @Thatguy-sm8cw 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Phenomenal. Keep em coming

  • @creedonjm
    @creedonjm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    These are so awesome, I log into YT at least once a week looking for these or a new Remy video.

  • @adamsmith2081
    @adamsmith2081 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I will watch every video on these ever

  • @ragnarok7976
    @ragnarok7976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The best thing for the environment would be to not give politicians the power to "save" it.

  • @justinpaul3110
    @justinpaul3110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    PLEASE do these more often

  • @russelltennis15
    @russelltennis15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These are the best

  • @michaellyden2580
    @michaellyden2580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Reason: ...on the plus side, the Taxman can't reach you at the bottom of the ocean.
    Taxman: *You Underestimate My Power!*

  • @stevemarshall3986
    @stevemarshall3986 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love these videos.

  • @goatface6602
    @goatface6602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Government is obsolete. Build something better. Decentralize everything.

  • @Liberty4Ever
    @Liberty4Ever 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love these videos. Should be Must See TV for all congresscritters, Clockwork Orange style if needed.

  • @robertjackson1407
    @robertjackson1407 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you 😊

  • @gregoswald7723
    @gregoswald7723 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What about politicians trying to ban guns... increasing gun sales.

  • @presidentmerkinmuffley6769
    @presidentmerkinmuffley6769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When will people learn that everything government touches goes to shit.
    It is the Midas touch, but gone totally wrong.

    • @geoffreydowdle5751
      @geoffreydowdle5751 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hahaha Midas touch did go totally wrong lol. That's a good analogy considering the inflation ...

    • @elenarfatespeaker
      @elenarfatespeaker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not the Midas touch gone wrong: it's just what the Midas touch actually was. Seriously, a story about a king who wanted gold so badly that he allowed himself to believe that replacing the utility of literally everything in his kingdom with the utility of having gold was a good idea, and people don't realize that it's a parable about taxation? O_o

  • @JackDecker63
    @JackDecker63 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great! Keep 'em coming!

  • @hikari1690
    @hikari1690 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The last one is sad cause I commented and got flamed in another video about double booking and flight staff having sleeping space on planes. They argued the airlines will go bust if they don't pack us in line vacuum packed dog food and kept calling me stupid for saying we consumers deserve better.
    Seeing how they can afford to fly ghost flights I think I was right...

  • @AusFirewing
    @AusFirewing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh so THAT'S why British sailing ships were always narrower and taller than those built in other countries. I had always wondered about that.

  • @ignaciogarcia9546
    @ignaciogarcia9546 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome do more like these!!!

  • @mustang607
    @mustang607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great moments in intended consequences may be more frequent.

  • @jacinthclifton636
    @jacinthclifton636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Can this be a weekly series? I'd pay a heft monthly subscription to make this into a weekly series.

  • @jamestaylor713
    @jamestaylor713 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love this series

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Philippines still has the no drive law. Now almost every car owner has two, cheaper less efficient, cars.

  • @uplink-on-yt
    @uplink-on-yt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm not sure that flying empty planes for pandemic dollars was an unintended consequence at all. The fuel industry surely enjoyed that cash, but couldn't justify asking for it directly.

  • @jacinthclifton636
    @jacinthclifton636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I stopped flying as soon as they put in the body scanners - that industry lost several thousand dollars from me alone when they put those POS's in. I've flown several times before the TSA - I've flown once since. I will fly again regularly once the TSA and the body scanners are REMOVED FROM THE AIRPORTS!

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why?

    • @adriansue8955
      @adriansue8955 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnp139 it interferes with his cocaine smuggling business

  • @chestnutlouie4709
    @chestnutlouie4709 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great videos!

  • @Phantom8589
    @Phantom8589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never underestimate the governments ability to waste money!

  • @josephgrimminck6855
    @josephgrimminck6855 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This series really highlights how awful people in charge are.... or just people really. I wish we would do better.

  • @scrapmason3721
    @scrapmason3721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can rely on the government to find the most unintended consequence solution every time, and stick with it!

    • @longanddeadly
      @longanddeadly 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why pay for something with other people's money once? When you can have two at twice the cost?

  • @bug5654
    @bug5654 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reason: The tax man can't reach you on the bottom of the ocean.
    Reason's IRS Agent: Jimmy, fire up the bathyscape.

  • @Fiery154
    @Fiery154 ปีที่แล้ว

    HAHA! I LOVE that I got a RUMBLE AD on this vid!

  • @WhoIsJohnGaltt
    @WhoIsJohnGaltt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite series

  • @lkjkhfggd
    @lkjkhfggd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These are great. It's hilarious how humans will go out of their way to get around the government. The ship thing in particular.

    • @jackdeniston59
      @jackdeniston59 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hilarious how Government people go out of their way getting in the way

  • @goldenplaydough5736
    @goldenplaydough5736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are too good

  • @valeriazaragoza375
    @valeriazaragoza375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They still do this in Chile.
    Edit: The car thing, I mean.

  • @pepelapiu2004
    @pepelapiu2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That 3# is absolutely ridiculous.

  • @2percentright
    @2percentright 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:31 point of order. The yearly cold and flu season wasn't destroying the airline industry. That, like usual, was solely on the Government's response to a bad cold.

  • @Munce72
    @Munce72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good intentions, bad results!

  • @razorback9999able
    @razorback9999able 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The year: 1972
    The problem: Communist uprising in the Philippines!
    The solution: Declare Martial Law!
    Sounds like a great idea!
    With the best of intentions!
    What could possibly go wrong?

  • @DiegoMonroyF
    @DiegoMonroyF 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Mexico there was also a temporary ownership tax on cars ("tenencia") introduced to finance the 1968 Summer Olympics... which of course has stayed with us ever since! Now rich guys in Mexico City register their luxury cars in a neighboring state that doesn't have that tax, making it very common to see cars with out-of-state plates throughout the city.

    • @hmlqrt2716
      @hmlqrt2716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I didnt know it was introduced to pay for the olympics!
      Goddamn politicians!

    • @lq7777
      @lq7777 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hmlqrt2716 Back in 2006, the US finally permanently repealed a tax on long distance calls that was originally created to pay for the Spanish-American War.
      It did get removed for a few years between the SA War and WWI and WWII, but had been reimplemented at the first hint of war approaching (1914 for WWI and 1932 for WWII). After WWII, they extended it for Korea, then Vietnam, and then just because…

  • @keinlieb3818
    @keinlieb3818 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watch only for these videos. Would love to see these on a more regular basis. Maybe even a channel dedicated specifically to these types of videos.

  • @robertgraham2656
    @robertgraham2656 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didn't fly in 2020 because of all of the stupid rules and restrictions, not because I feared getting the sniffles. I would've loved to have snapped up some of those cheap flights but I was not going to wear a mask for 5 hours to get to Florida where theme parks were closed or had their own lame rules. What a wasted year!

  • @fgantoniazi
    @fgantoniazi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In São Paulo , Brazil they still doing this car thing ... of couse the consequences are the same.

  • @touchedouche8806
    @touchedouche8806 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pretty sure i heard that there are still a few trillion dollsrs worth of covid stimmy / bail out money unaccounted for. (The Ukrainian cash laundromat wasnt open for business yet)

  • @czgunner
    @czgunner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like the "global pandemic" part, that was funny.

  • @daledoire268
    @daledoire268 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ouch, that last one hurts.

  • @justtomy8044
    @justtomy8044 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Im mexican and i didn't knew about that car plates law
    I have seen that 6 days restrictions since i was born, and its still up Mexico city its still having that polution problem with a gray sky
    BUT I NEVER THOUGHT THAT THE GOVERNMENT JUST "FIXED" IT BY ADDING SATURDAYS, i always thought that was since the beginning
    Oh and forgot to mention the plates that ends on 00 can always circulate by paying a small fee or something like that
    I dont own a car so i dont have an actual understanding about the whole situation but just the simple context its absurd enough

  • @freebie808
    @freebie808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    PLandemic

  • @ovidiucroitoru2290
    @ovidiucroitoru2290 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What great history lessons! To be ignored by politicians. And voters

  • @notthefbi7932
    @notthefbi7932 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The original green new deal 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @tompatterson1548
    @tompatterson1548 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those “ghost flights” usually filled their hold with packages.

  • @stuartegrin7543
    @stuartegrin7543 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant

  • @Fin4L6are
    @Fin4L6are 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favourite series

  • @daveBit15
    @daveBit15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Good intentions."

  • @goldengriffon
    @goldengriffon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Unfortunately, government doesn't care about results. Whether a problem is solved or not is irrelevant. Politicians only care that they can claim to have "done something". Actually, no results - or even bad results - might actually be preferred by them. More money and opportunity "to do something" in the future. Few people make stable careers out of solving a problem.

  • @taylorgletscher
    @taylorgletscher 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The licence plate thing also is going on in São Paulo for a long time. They even expanded the area that this "solution" takes place.

  • @razorback9999able
    @razorback9999able 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first problem also happened in my country (Philippines) with the number coding scheme. For years I thought it would be a solution to the problem. Nowadays I was wrong.

  • @talongreenlee7704
    @talongreenlee7704 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This playlist should be required viewing before a person can legally become a legislator

  • @anonygent
    @anonygent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Once upon a time, there was a *good* unintended consequence... soon after the ill-advised and unwarranted invasion of Iraq, Libya announced it was ending its nuclear research program. Not something anyone expected, but welcome news in any case.