Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: St. Paul Rent, Arizona Alt Fuel, GA Ballot Access (Vol. 8)
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Part One: Housing Costs
The year: 2021
The problem: Rent is expensive in St. Paul, Minnesota!
The solution: Limit residential rent increases to 3 percent a year, even if there is a change in occupancy.
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
The initiative did not account for inflation. And unlike most rent control initiatives, the new law also applies to new apartment buildings, discouraging housing construction and investment. Which is why multi-family building permits are down over 80 percent in St. Paul, while ramping up in the rest of the state.
Which explains why St. Paul is the patron saint of tent makers.
Part Two: Arizona Alt Fuel
The year: 2000
The problem: Not enough alternative fuel is being used in Arizona.
The solution: Generous tax credits for new vehicles to incentivize buyers to add an alternative fuel tank.
The subsidy allowed tens of thousands to buy fully loaded luxury SUVs at a nearly 50 percent discount, as long as they were converted to add a secondary one-gallon alternative fuel tank that would likely never be filled up. The plan wound up costing the state hundreds of millions and actually increased gasoline consumption.
Tanks for nothing!
Part Three: Georgia Ballot Access
The year: 1940
The problem: Communists.
The solution: Bar communists from appearing on ballots.
Sounds…pretty unconstitutional, with questionable intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
Restrictive ballot access measures were codified in 1943, requiring signatures from 5 percent of a congressional district's voters. Later, more requirements were added, including forcing signatures to be notarized and the imposition of qualifying fees. It's now been over 60 years since a third-party candidate has muscled through the restrictions to appear on the ballot for any congressional race in Georgia.
Written and produced by Meredith and Austin Bragg; narrated by Austin Bragg
The problem: plastic pollution in Washington's waterways.
The solution: ban businesses from offering "single-use" plastic bags. They can still use thicker bags that have MORE plastic in them, as long as those bags are labeled as reusable.
Turns out Washington's waterways don't care whether plastic bags are labeled "reusable."
@shamp00p during COVID, the stores didn't want to touch used bags, so the bring your own bag movement died.
Waste plastic is useful you can make roads out of it that last far longer than asphalt roads by putting a bounty on plastic the homeless would pick it all up for cash.
@@Barskor1 its not, thats just false. Its been proven so as well
Although, to give a counter-example of reasonable legislation which actually did work for once: Here in the UK, the government mandated a 5p (6¢) charge on disposable plastic bags. It actually radically reduced pollution. And it was sensibly waived during COVID when we were first worried about the possibility of surface contamination. But we still have the option of buying disposable bags when we actually need them.
@@iAmTheSquidThing in america ppl are against that kind of legislation, something ive seen work as another option is to have paper/biodegradable bags
To clarify the last one, for those who might not have caught it- the consequences are COMPLETELY INTENDED.
And a note- the Dems and Repubs that made the rules for signatures and fees likely don't have to follow the same rules or jump over the same hurdles that they set up for other parties.
This is what we call a #duopoly.
Part of the insidious game of #ControlledOpposition.
Thank you Captain Obvious!
@@AnaIvanovic4ever In his defense, there might have been a Leftist watching that completely missed it.
And thank god for that. Imagine if Lolberts got to force policy.
@@mrdean2539 There is always a leftist who thinks the point being made doesn't apply to them, but only their opponents. They are called Liberals and Democrats.
@@RobinDale50 While I tend to agree, there are a few Democrats and liberals that are still sane. Not a lot, but there are some. I talked to one once before he rode away on his unicorn.
Request: The Misleading Names of Bills and what they actually accomplished, and the number of pages they end up being as passing. All because the Supreme Court ruled the line item veto unconstitutional. Another ruling that should be revisited.
Hey at least it's gone from the exact opposite ((un)patriot(ic) act) to just something generic that you can't be against but has nothing to do with the subject matter (save our kids act lol). Not sure if that's an improvement though because at least before you knew it was simply in reverse.
Absolutely
With all the things the court really should rule unconstitutional like civil forfeiture and qualified immunity, they still give the line item veto a pass.
whats this now?
here here!
Medical costs for having babies is costly and expensive, especially for single(not legally married)mothers. The solution: Medicaid will pay for it for single mothers with no personal health insurance coverage.
The result: Mothers(and fathers) of certain communities realize this means that if they don't get married and the mother doesn't work to earn medical benefits, they can reap the benefits of covered hospital stays when having babies at the cost of the tax payer, in mass. The father works and owns housing that the mother lives in with the father (though he does not live there officially) and the mother receives food stamps and other housing assistance to pay her husband rent.
No that a good one.
I'd suggest you research, Director's Law, and what Milton Friedman meant by it. The middle class gets its own free ride, lol.
A person is only married or unmarried, with the exception of divorcee or adoption (statistics can be very manipulative). Oh and there are whites with genetically black parents as well as adopted. Some have parents from Asia as well like Tiger Woods ;-)
@@MrThinkEncourager nothing about your response to mine was coherent or made any sense to what I was addressing. I wasn't making any statement about the middle class and their costs nor did i mention the race or ethnicity of the people abusing the system. I'm specifically mentioning how the system is crafted in such a way where legally single women qualify for government benefits yet they are behaving like they are married by having 7 children with the same man, living in his home and being supported financially by him. The benefits they receive for being single (often unemployed) mothers are financial, stamps, medicaid and rent assistance. That rent assistance is often paid to their pseudo husbands. The system is being abused.
@@ChuckThunder All welfare, SSI, etc., are intended for people in actual need, but the able bodied abuse the system. Always. It's human nature to pick the path of least resistance.
@@ChuckThunder How could anyone have foreseen that people might abuse the system to line their pockets?
Problem: Laws are passed but never repealed Consequence: No human brain could hold all the law, but are required to do so..
Its called over criminalization. Its partly intended because if you want to get rid of someone, he will do something criminal even if he doesn’t realize it
For the Arizona fuel credit, you forgot to mention that out-of-state taxi and limousine companies would invest millions to purchase entire fleets of vehicles and the alternative-fuel credit program would pay for half of the cost. The taxis and limos would be used for business outside the state, but would have Arizona registration... at least temporarily.
Paul actually was a tentmaker by trade! Solid biblical reference there.
Which is why he is the patron saint of tentmakers.
@@brianzmek7272 Oh is that a real thing? I'm not a Catholic. How silly
@@SeraphsWitness St. Paul is the patron saint of missionaries, evangelists, writers, journalists, authors, public workers, rope and saddle makers, and tent makers.
St Paul, Pray for us.
@@VincenzoRutiglianoDiaz I'll pray to God directly rather than attempt to commune with the dead.
Paul made tents so he could afford to continue traveling and sharing about his encounter with Jesus. Which is why modern-day missionaries still refer to income-producing-work that allows them to stay on the field as “tent-making.”
This is opposed to missionaries who are fully financially supported/sent by churches/individuals.
Newton’s third law of economics: every regulation has an equal an opposite unintended consequence.
the last listed didnt
Am I the only one who gets Einstein's sense of humor? The theory of relativity is actually just common sense... seriously he scientifically describes common sense
Yeah, that sums up Minnesota - a fantastic state governed by awful people. Way to go, St. Paul.
A democratically elected government is a reflection of the people. I wouldn’t say that Minnesota is exactly a “fantastic state” if half the population is woke as fuck.
A fantastic state if you stay out of Ramsey and Hennepin counties, and only visit Duluth.
@@mamatmag Duluth is turning the corner, heading the wrong direction.
Minnesota has always been a bit on the socialist side boasting '3 socialist party mayors'
So every state?
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) - designed to protect the environment but actually prevents building of any kind that doesn't have an exception. Townhomes and apartments don't have an exception so the only housing that is built in California are single family homes which causes sprawl which increases commute times and cars on the road, which hurts the environment.
Now you have a boom of American style suburbs, and litterally ZERO apartments.
*Fuming in urbanist*
I feel like the bill about voting access achieved exactly its intended consequence. Maybe not its STATED intention, but the real intention.
it did. The video acknowledged that as well. It just did it without directly saying so.
no it achieved great success in making sure actual commies didnt get ballot access. It was such good legislation that even today its stopping cancerous Lolbertarians from trying to recreate Weimar germany in America
They definitely alluded to the intended consequences. By the way, love these videos.
No, there are Democrats on the ballot - so the aim of eliminating communists failed!
ate least there's no commies running the government, right?
Paying people to stay home leading to people having cash but fewer products to buy is always a classic
Exactly. Too many $ chasing too few products is the definition of inflation.. like duh
2020 was the year of "I'm telling you right now..."
2021 was the year of "I told you so!"
2022 is the year of "yeah, we knew. It's all part of the plan."
If people stay at home without working for months while we print 3 things happen 1) product demand goes down 2) product supply goes down 3) money supply goes up but not velocity of money - ie inflation stays low. Now we have problematic supply chains, with 2 kinds of money chasing goods .. the old money and the newly printed ones.
@@georgesamaras2922 demand didn't go down it went up as did money supply printing money we had no production, ergo lower supply. Too much money chasing too few goods is the textbook definition of inflation. The government caused this economic downturn.
@@georgesamaras2922 actually, creating without jobs increases inflation in the worst way. More people with money but less products.That push the cost of products up
If you’re looking for a great example for your next installment, look into how the south encouraged people to start planting the vine “kudzu” to prevent soil erosion. It became the vine that ate the South
Its oriental, therefore its fancy.
And the starling was imported to consume the gypsy moths that were accidentally introduced to the Americas, and starlings have now displaced many native species. Government - If you don't like our problems, wait until you see our solutions.
Yes indeed. Permaculture is what is needed to actually fix soil loss problems and rebuild farmland.
Rabbits in Australia, cats to prevent rats eating bird eggs, snails introduced into US by some French guy, why Australia is over run with mice, why DDT was banned (with no scientific proof it harmed wildlife beyond mosquitoes and lice and such) so we have 1-5 million people a year dying of mosquito-spread diseases.
Remember cyclomates?
You could probably live off unintended consequences of almost every eco law.
Good one. I remember digging them out as a kid.
My town had an election for it's City Clerk position, it was a tie. Each person running got the same number of votes. There was no run-off, or new vote... there was a law on the books for just such a situation.
It involved them each rolling dice, higher roll took the position.
I am 100% serious.
Dafuq? Seriously? How? What the bleep where they thinking? Whatever they where smoking, I want none of that shit! Just how the hell do you become so brain-dead that you think rolling dice for a public office is a good idea in any shape or form? Just imagine sleepy creepy rolling it of against orange man bad. Absurd!
A lot less expensive than a runoff election.
I think that's a great solution. If two candidates are apparently that closely regarded, who cares which one it is? Don't waste taxpayer money coming up with a convoluted solution.
@@jasondashney I agree wonderful solution.
Many jurisdictions have provisions for breaking ties. The state of New Mexico settles tied elections with one hand of five card stud poker. Most others use coin flips, draws of envelopes, colored blocks or marbles, etc.
Oh... I remember the Az fuel deal here is Az. The owners of these vehicles had specialized alt fuel license plates so... angry people were keying the cars, throwing stuff at them in traffic and verbally abusing them in parking lots. It got pretty ugly. Another example of what happens when govts interfere with private markets.
I honestly love it when libertarians reach right across the isle to their sworn enemies, the commies, because that's kind of the point of libertarianism. your viewpoint is valid and deserves representation under the constitution even if it's antithetical to progress. rights for me and also for thee.
Then you'll be the most principled person in the box car
Please explain how voluntary communism would be against libertarianism.
libertarians absolutely allow communes to exist, co-ops to do business, and mutual aid societies to help people. It’s asking for the polices help to make that all happen that makes libertarians eyes bleed.
"Help make all that happen" more like mandate it for everyone and murder anyone that objects. I have no objection to communism so long as I don't have to be involved.
I always say if you don't apply them consistently, they're not morals; they're whims.
The problem: Workers want more money
The solution: Government mandated minimum wage hikes
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? The young workers whom the bill was purported to help the most were unable to find any employment because their nonexistent work skills didn't justify the minimal wage and businesses would lose money employing them. Without an entry level job to develop work skills, they were permanently locked out of the job market instead of working their way up to a better paying job. Existing low wage earners received a modest bump in salary that was more than offset by the resulting loss of government income assistance and they demanded part time work to regain their government assistance after netting $200 less per month after the Seattle minimum wage hike. Employers concluded that unskilled labor is a very bad deal so most of those jobs are now automated out of existence by ordering kiosks, self checkout lines, online shopping displacing brick and mortar retail, burger flipping robots....
Yes, but its actually more insidious than that. The origin of many of these min wage laws were designed to push the recently freed blacks out of the work place. Many business owners were hiring blacks for low- and no-skill work, paying them less than what whites would accept. Racist employers were forced to hire blacks in order to compete with non-racist employers. The min wage laws were passed to force people to pay what whites were demanding so that racist employers could avoid hiring blacks without cost to them. The result was that many blacks lost their jobs, and today, it's very hard for young people to get low paying part time jobs on a weekend or an afternoon after school where they can earn some cash and learn actual job skills and have an experience of responsibility and personal pride.
I 100% believe it, but got some links for those that need proof?
it gets worse: not only to minimum wage hikes cost jobs directly because employment becomes too expensive, they also cause inflation because the wage hike is passed on to customers.
Which inflation causes the wage hike to be completely nullified when it comes to buying power.
In the end the only one benefitting is the government as a lot of that inflation comes from increased tax revenue.
Online shopping and burger flipping robots are not a consequence of minimum wage hikes. It’s the result of technological advances. We have been headed in this direction for decades. Automation, robotics and AI are not new endeavors. You’re dumb
What always seemed insane to me is the federal minimum wage in the US.
But ye, minimum wage on a state level can also be problematic, even in smaller european countries you can see this.
The way some smaller towns get around this is by offering tax exemptions to businesses, so in the end it's the government that pays for higher wages, not the businesses.
In the 1800s pro-slavery Missourians and Mormons who were settling in the area (and largely northerners, even some abolitionist, not to mention practicing a new religion) were having armed conflicts. Missouri government told both sides to give up their weapons to solve fighting. The Mormons gave up their weapons while the other side did not. Lead to thousands of Mormon families being driven from their homes, murdered, raped, etc because they could not defend themselves
Pretty much the story everywhere people gave up their guns.
Intended consequence
The Mormons live in Utah now (and are heavily armed)
Same thing happened with the natives, turns out that giving up your defense to the government is a horrible idea.
The same thing happens in the corporate world. They set up the requirements to match their already created system, making it difficult for new competition.
its not competition though. Its cancer and no one wants to help the spread of cancer
The corporate world leverages the violent monopoly of state control to do that.
It's like two men pointing guns at eachother's heads while they're both busy pulling the levers of society in order to get one to do what the other wants.
The state has the bigger gun though.
death by regulations
Yeah, hard to call the consequences of that last one "unintended"
Best part? The communists are working to take over one of the two parties and are getting on the ballot anyway.
We'll take the Democrats and Republicans everybody else has to go🤮🤥😫
But I mean they are communists
exactly which makes it based
@@dudebros6122 if it were true they voted blue then then I'd say yes but the lolberts are completely adverse to power same with the Republicans. New hampshire the free state proves this.
This is my favorite show on this channel. Didn't think there would be another one. Please, sir may I have another?
If you look at the post dates on all of the videos in this series, you’ll likely notice the tendency for a great chasm of time between each subsequent video in the series.
Idea: Argentina made union membership mandatory for any job. Now some workers are forced to pay up to 4% of theor salary to unions and they have no other choice
Hey Austin and Meredith, I've got one for you: At the start of this year, New Jersey enacted a ban on disposable bags. It turns out people are just buying "renewable" ones and then throwing them out. (Especially people doing orders from home, where you can't bring your own bag. Nor can they donate them for sanitary reasons.)
Next up:
The most manipulative, government manufactured euphemisms.
Or bill acronyms and nicknames
@ Terry Schmitt
That would be fine as well. Although, when you start unpacking the propagandized names and nicknames, you essentially find euphemisms.
Patriot act
@@DanielBjorndahl
"Friendly fire."
Food insecurity. Handing an ice cream cone to a two-year-old. Experiencing homelessness. That new ride at the local theme park.
You could also do rent control in Berkley California. The rent control is so extreme that few builders consider building there is no available housing, and what is available are poor living conditions - landlords don't maintain homes and they become uninhabitable shacks that sell for millions.
I wish Vancouver would see this. They're considering rent control. Here it's bad enough already because it's really hard to get building permits so rentals are not increasing nearly fast enough, yet the city council blames "greedy landlords and builders" instead of their own policies.
Here in Victoria, Australia our neo-Marxist premier made our capital city, for a while, the world's most locked down city. To "protect" tenants, he also made it near impossible to evict someone. The result? Landlords are scared to rent on the open market, so people who rent through personal connections, and corporate tenants (who were never covered by the eviction protections) have seen real rents fall, while market rents have shot up and huge amounts of housing are being left empty. In my area, many landlords are requiring the full value of a 12 month lease to be paid up front!
The corollary to this has been a homelessness crisis, so we now have lots of people camping in and around our beaches (where there are public showers and toilets) - many of whom have the ability to pay a reasonable amount of money for rent, but literally cannot find anyone who will rent to them.
It's beyond belief to me that nobody seems to look at unintended consequences for any of the leftist ideas that are creeping up lately. I say leftist because there are very, very few places that are as far right as many cities are far left these days. Almost all the coastal cities are in so much trouble. As a Vancouver and Victoria BC, Canada resident the future here is quite grim as the consequences are compounding here as well. Sorry you guys had such insane lockdowns, even worse than parts of Canada had. Thank god for Sky News so I could keep up with the insanity there. Best of luck.
@@jasondashney Value investors call it "first order thinking" and almost everyone does it.
People who naturally think multi-iteratively usually make far more money in financial markets or in business than any politician who isn't crooked could dream of making.
Generally, the right don't see the unintended consequences much better than the left, they just have a better perspective on government intervention more generally.
@@seansingh8862 The right are called conservative for a reason. They are way less prone to change of any sort so they usually aren't the ones to institute new laws that mess things up in unintended ways. They inherently see all change as more prone to unintended consequences which is why they tend to avoid it.
Update: yesterday I went to see an architect about building a new home, and she mentioned that our enlightened government now requires all new homes to be built to 7 star energy efficiency, which they estimate will add an average of A$100k to the cost of every new build!
Personally, it didn't make any difference to my build because that was always my intention anyway, but to go ahead with that sort of policy in the middle of a housing crisis truly boggles the mind.
After that I went to the local shopping center where I used the toilet and I saw that there was a queue of people waiting to use the toilet who were obviously sleeping rough, but didn't seem like stereotypical bums. Sad.
@@seansingh8862 I'm in construction safety and onn industrial sites the safety program takes up about a third of the budget. The people instituting these programs think they are scoring one for the little guy because that makes the job a tiny bit safer but guess who pays? The end consumer pays for literally everything always. The insane prices we are paying due not to sensible ways to protect workers but instead just a bloated bureaucracy is ridiculous. And then these people have the stones to bitch when things cost too much.
Those SUVs in Arizona could also apply for AFV plates, allowing them to drive in the HOV lane, regardless of occupancy, which further incentivized getting the AFV conversion.
The year: 1940
The problem: COMMUNISM
The solution: Sounds a lot like single-party communism if you think about it for more than two seconds...
It all becomes power games once you strip away the rhetoric.
Rural Electrification Act choked innovation into portable, renewable energy sources making farms dependent on the grid (and thus coal, gas, etc) rather than early adoption of wind/solar, etc.
Or because EPA literally makes it illegal to have actual eco friendly power sources?
Most school districts in Utah have a shortage of teachers, especially special Ed teachers and extra especially special Ed substitutes. So some school districts, in order to increase the amount of special Ed substitutes, added a stipend to incentives people. Well with the stipend added to the subs pay they were making almost as much as the full time teachers but with way less work load (most of a full time teachers work happens outside of school hours, which subs do not have to do) and substitutes get to choose which days they work. And with such a shortage they could work everyday if they wanted or not if they wanted. So many of the full time teachers quit and became substitutes, adding to the teacher shortage.
1:49 I love how it's not always "what a great idea, with the best of intentions"
Next Episode: Bloated school budgets while "education" gets worse and worse and school support staff outnumber teachers so most education spending goes to bureaucracy.
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” ~ Lawrence Peter
One of my favorite examples: a bridge attendant had operated the only drawbridge in town for 40 years before the town noticed that he didn't have any kind of supervision, so they hired a supervisor for the bridge attendant and a second supervisor over the supervisor. Then a couple years later, money got tight, so what did the town do? Fired the bridge attendant.
You could do an entire episode on The PATRIOT Act.
Exactly
Fun fact: Joe Biden first wrote the law in 1993, it got immediately shot down and only picked back up because of the opportunity of 9/11. Pretty interesting how he's now the president, kind of like how George H. W. Bush in the CIA and in Dallas when Kennedy got shot.
This is your best series by far!
Omaha Nebraska November 2020. Problem:People are not riding the metro transit busses. The solution: $37 Million dollar project to replace the normal size city transit busses that were consistently 5% full with double occupancy articulated buses that are consistently 2.5% full. 15 months after the route started the city celebrated its 500,000th bus ride averaging 1098 bus rides per day-or .2% of the city population.
This is hands-down my favorite series!
A REQUEST or SUGGESTION. In my Economics courses I remember that we had a case of "what happens if you don't think things through" of protecting Deer.
I cannot remember the name of the forest, but here's what happened.
There was a forest in which the Government decided to protect the deer in a forest. They then had all the predators killed off and banned the hunting of deer.
Of course the deer population went crazy and they basically ate everything in sight and and then they ate the tree bark and then the trees themselves.
With the forest then gone the deer then died.
No more forest.
No more trees.
No more deer.
Government thinking at it's finest
Eco idiots convinced African nation to stop hunting elephants and put them in protected areas.
Every elephant lagally culled had brought in $50-100,000 but they banned hunting
At great cost, they rounded up the nation's elephants and put in a national park.
In a very short time, the elephants cleared all edible vegetation and started starving to death. The nation no longer had the money, from elephant hunting, to take care of the elephants.
There was more poaching and even fewer elephants
Elephants finally got released, but there are now very few elephants.
Hunting pays for wildlife care and imorovement
More irony
I think it happened in a national park
I think ...
In Arizona in Sulfur Springs Valley, water rights restrictions have been put on land that has never had water on it before. Mega farmers are able to buy land from elderly people and they get them to say that water has been on the land before in the deed, thus giving them water rights on land that never had water on it. My father has lived in the area for 80 years and he knows that no water has ever been put on the land.
Now mega farmers are planting pecan trees out in the middle of the desert and pecan trees use 3 times more water than corn does. And corn uses a lot of water.
Agriculture uses 70% of all the water consumed in the Southwestern USA. Residential use accounts for 6%
And yet they constantly implement strategies to cut down on CIVILIAN water usages while not really doing much about making more efficient water consumption on agriculture... Because clearly planting trees is a very responsible way to use water in a desert :D
Unintended consequences is the greatest thing on TH-cam!
St Paul is actually the patron saint of both tent makers and public relations!
German "The Greens Party" wants biofuel but doesn't restrict that the biofuel cannot come from freshly deforested areas -> Increased Deforestation in Indonesia and other places for palm oil
That last one about Georgia ballot access was QUITE intentional.
I have a suspicion that not all these unintended consequences were unintended.
Child labour in the 3rd world.
The year - 1996.
The problem - child labour in 3rd world sweat shops, working exhausting hours to produce over priced sports shoes for spoilt first world children of all ages!
Solution - famous sport shoe brands put pressure on their sub-contractors to only use adult labour.
A change with the best of intentions.
What could possibly go wrong?
The pressure was applied and the children were fired. Sadly they and their families lost the income the children were earning. So alternative employment was sought - at the local brothel! The only commonly available alternative employer. The number of child prostitutes boomed as did sex trafficing of children! Fortunately the children were not doomed to a long life of sexual abuse as HIV also boomed and cut short their lives of misery!
How about how e-cigarette manufacturer restrictions have made it possible for big tobacco to sell cheap and less healthy e-cigarettes while driving out the innovators and higher end products that helped people do things like tape or nicotine, not get weird metals and things in their lungs, and just generally run things better than big tobacco.
Taper
I love the last one specifically because the "unintended consequences" were probably fully intended and the actual point of legislation that was presumably passed by politicians who were trying to prevent third party candidates from appearing on the ballet, and right at the end he acknowledged this with the "I get it now." I was not expecting that from this series.
Love how you ended with an actual intended consequence.
There are few things in my feed that I enjoy as much as these videos. As always, fantastic!
You should research the "Inland Port" idea from Dallas, Texas around the turn of the century (late 1990s to early 2000s). It's what happens when city, county, and state clash. High speed rail, low speed rail, expanded mass transit, 20k+ jobs--and it never "passed Go".
Excellent series of videos! Request: The "Cash for Clunkers" 2009 USA car rebate program. It was supposed to help the environment, stimulate the economy, and reducing economic inequality. What could go wrong? (1) Hurt the environment because it removed *and forcefully scrapped* cars before the end of their useful life. About 50% of a car's energy consumption is during the car's manufacturing! A car's true energy cost is the gasoline consumable plus an amortized piece of the energy used to manufacture the car. By cutting short the useful life of cars the remaining amortized portion of manufacturing energy gets accounted as a balloon carbon cost and the carbon footprint grows, not shrinks! (2) Worked to pull car sales in from the future rather than increase car sales. Many people the program helped to buy new cars were already planning on buying new cars. Note this program happened right around the time General Motors and Chrysler declared bankruptcy; the program didn't seem to help stimulate the auto market that much! (3) Because this program required the destruction of otherwise good used cars, the price of used cars skyrocketed due to supply restriction. Who gets hurt by skyrocketing used car prices? Low income people! So much for helping with economic inequality - the program only helped those wealthy enough to buy a new car with the bonus. I had coworkers who desperately needed to get replacement cars (to buy a new-to-them used car to replace their existing failing cars) but were unable to for about a year due to this program.
This cash for clunker's program really was an exercise in how good intentions can go horribly wrong.
That plot twist is hysterical. 🤣
Corporate regulation unintended consequences.
Results are that we get a bloated government, more monopolies, and less small businesses.
Don't forget environmental regulations. In L.A. they have federal regs, state regs, county regs, city regs, and special district regs. Think of that morass of incompetence and stupidity.
I've voted in Georgia and they're 100% are third party options on the ballot
I would pay to see 2 hours of these in a movie theater, even with double-priced tickets.
What a great idea! With the best of intentions
@@cyclonejunior What could possibly go wrong?
in the wild rush when the crowd shoved you into the theater, you forgot to piss and bring enough popcorn. and there's so many people, it's hard to even sit down.
Lol, that tentmakers joke was great.
My favorite series in youtube! Please make more :)
Love these! I promise to keep watching them as long as you keep making them! 😄
I love these....just great and the narrator is the best.
Love ALL of these! Great series! Moar. MOAR!
These are way better than ReasonTV's recent Robert Soave Dem Lite "libertarian" faux pearl clutching over the January 6th fedsurrection.
Loved the format. Please more
Absolutely love this, super funny and informative
Brought my vintage motorcycle that gets 60mpg to snowbird in Phoenix because my SUV gets 15mpg. Great idea, what could possibly go wrong? - The push to use ethanol there is so great that ZERO gas stations in Phoenix offer non-ethanol (real gas) which is required for engines not made to burn ethanol.
Unintended consequences are often far more powerful than the stated goals a measure/policy seeks to achieve.
My sugestion would be patent laws, there are just so many examples
In software patents people managed to patent having an arrow that points in the direction you have to go, or having dinamic AI that adapts to the player (the nemesis sistem)
This is a great channel..thank you
😂 I like your sense of humour. And these deliver some valuable lessons as well
Loves this!!!!! More of these!!!
I love these!
Next topic: Northern Ireland renewable heat incentive scandal
Collapsing the northern Ireland executive takes a strong breeze at most. It's not a great feat.
I thought they already did that in a previous episode.
More of these please.
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions"
Best one ever!
i tried thinking about the last one and then suddenly fainted, i woke up later with an odd pain in the back of my neck and what feels like a small plastic lump there now... is this normal?
I actually agree with the Georgia law!!!!
hope you talk about the North American Free Trade Agreement one of these days!
NICE! Just watched an episode yesterday.
Sounds like.... an IDEA! More of these....
Part One: Recycled Fashion
The year: Decades in the making!
The problem: Africa needs clothes, and lots of them.
The solution: Have western businesses and individual donors send free clothes and shoes to Africa.
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
While good in the short term, western handouts became a band-aid fix that actually INCREASED poverty in Africa. According to several studies, rather than contribute to the growth of Africa, they are now EVEN POORER than before. Local cobblers and tailors cannot compete with the lowest price of all, free. With these local businesses having gone under, Africa experienced EVEN HIGHER rates of poverty and unemployment.
My Dad always said, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"!!!
They have just passed an inflation reduction bill. What could possibly go wrong.
The Great Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
I don't know if you already did it, but the 1990 's Yacht tax is always a good one.
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One Republican legislator screwed up that good bipartisan idea when he was able to convince enough legislators to amend the bill to reduce the size of the alternative fuel (propane) tank. What a jerk. He hasn’t been heard of since. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The British practice of paying people bounties for killing King Snakes (I forget which country, one of their former colonies) has to be the clear winner. Maybe not the worse example, but definitely the funniest.
This sounds like a great idea for a series I would definitely subscribe to
Suggestion: The South African government's heavily indebted and grossly corrupt, electricity utility and monopoly entity of Eskom cannot produce enough electricity to meet demand. To reduce the need for blackouts, consumers were encouraged to reduce power consumption to lower demand. All that happened was that the blackouts continued, got worse, and Eskom's debt got worse because less people were buying electricity as they reduced consumption massively, or just installed their own solar panel arrays at home.
Best highlight of voter restrictions ever!
The problem: cars cause polution (this is in Eugene, Oregon right now)
The solution: ban the construction of gas stations so that people start using bikes instead of cars
Turns out when people have to drive further to get gas, they create more polution by dint of having to drive more. This also increases traffic, leading to more traffic jams (courtesy of a VERY poorly designed road network), which in turn leads to wasted time and far more polution than is being reduced. Oh, and you know how sometimes ambulances and other emergency services are in a hurry sometimes? Yeah...
Unintended Consequence: compare crime/homicide/murder rate in states/cities with extremely restrictive gun control and states that have minimal gun control.
How did that "assault" weapon (weapons exactly like all other legal semi-automatic weapons, just not as "pretty") ban work out?
How did that 1% federal income tax work out?
How has that minimum wage worked out historically and why not raise it to $100,000 an hour since it has no effect on hiring or the economy?
I suspect all laws passed by the morons people vote for will have unintended consequences that were brought up during debate.
@ILovePancakes24 That is a sure way to keep unemployment up, prices high, increase robots/kiosks and give us a nice recession. Study supply/demand
@ILovePancakes24 wow, you understand these things and still don't believe that minimum wage is a huge drag.
What we need is to kill green energy until it is economical, start drilling, get energy prices down, and remove any drags on economy
In the early 2000s, Brazil became self sufficient in Oil. When the 2008 crisis hit, the president said it would be ripple wave. He lowered the costs to buy gasoline cars, thus boycotting his own plan of development of Ethanol as a substitute, and increased demand for cars and gasoline. When the crisis came in full a few years later, Brasil’s oil company was on a deficit, the country was in need to import gasoline, the ethanol plan was over, and companies were stocking millions of cars that no one wanted to buy
Sometimes reality is funnier than any joke you can make.
We want to save democracy!
Great! How can we do that?
Don't let certain people we don't agree with on the Presidential ballot in our State. He can't be elected if he can't be voted for. Democracy wins!
This is amazing 👏
Excellent
I really think you could make a hour long video of these
You are right, that last one worked as intended.
At least someone admited the unconstitutional nature of US actions over the past 80 years.
Brave!
Cane toads in Australia is a classic example of unintended consequences of government action.
And rabbits
The problem : governments passing insanely complex laws that nobody can understand.
The solution : governments just say that ignorance of the law is no excuse.
The result : politicians get caught violating laws, and then claim they didn't know what they were doing was illegal.
This and NationStates should be required material for upcoming politicians.