I don't think that's necessarily true. In fact, it's not true.
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The argument: If we pass a law saying "[some powerful entity] cannot do Y" it will be applied to X. That applies to every single thing we regulate. In fact, people in power *do* try to use laws (too) broadly for almost any law we do pass.
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"Excessive air travel regulation makes air travel more expensive, so people drive more which means they die more since that is less safe." It's not even all incorrect. Pretty much all regulations have these issues of reach, unintended consequence, purposeful misapplication, etc.
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Purposeful misapplication is also very common. Many authoritarian governments will use benign environmental laws in a work-to-rule manner to shut down NGOs. ("You need sprinklers to be so many meters apart dear human rights NGO, and yours are an inch short).
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The structure of the argument absolutely applies to every regulation.
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Here's what you are missing. Authoritarian governments do all that. They absolutely apply health or tax or regulation rules *selectively* to dissidents or corporations they dislike. This is where being so US-centric is misleading you. Those of us with experience seen this a lot.
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"But they don't do it to me in the US" Well, you just made my argument. So onward I move.
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