Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Monday, October 26, 2009

Study: Stupid Laws Produce Stupid Results

Another in the long line of the unintended consequences of government intervention. I forget what number we're up to now.
Anyway, there are federal subsidies in Porkulus that will help you invest in the lucrative market for...golf carts.
The IRS also has ruled there’s no limit to how many electric cars an individual can buy, the Journal reports, inspiring some enterprising investors to stock up on multiple carts while the federal credit lasts, in order to resell them at a profit later on.
Seriously. What does it take to get lawmakers to just shut up and stop making stupid laws?
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  1. GrimpOctober 26, 2009 at 5:07 PM

    You totally just blew the whistle on my new business model, dang you!

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