I want to give every politician on earth a plaque saying "have you tried not banning it?" It won't solve all or even most political problems. But the number and importance of problems it would solve is horrifying.
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Maybe on the back it could say "have you tried not mandating it?" for the times where there is too much rather than too little.
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A second plaque, only for advanced politicians would read "have you tried not giving it huge implicit subsidies?" and "have you tried not giving it an enormous marginal implicit tax rate?"
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Replying to @geekethics
When they don't ban it, they'll mandate it. And when they don't give it huge subsidies, they'll give it huge taxes. Also, I've seen otherwise smart non politicians suggest doing both, giving a huge tax to balance a huge subsidy (result net small tax).
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This is less stupid than how EU agriculture worked for many years. There politicians tried to reduce huge over-supplies caused by subsidy by giving people a different huge subsidy *not* to produce. People who can speak full sentences came up with this idea.
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Pretty sure the US does something like that too. Robert Heinlein put an account of that in a novel (Time Enough for Love).
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