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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELDHaeEsNF0]Sen. Rand Paul on Consumer Choice in Energy Committee Hearing - YouTube[/ame]
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Seems like such a simple concept, doesn't it? Give the consumer choice and incentives to go with the 'energy efficient' item, rather than force it and punish non compliance. Paul managed to silence the woman senator with this.
How is it that the left is all for 'choice' when it comes to abortion but is against 'choice' for so much else?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Seems like such a simple concept, doesn't it? Give the consumer choice and incentives to go with the 'energy efficient' item, rather than force it and punish non compliance. Paul managed to silence the woman senator with this.
How is it that the left is all for 'choice' when it comes to abortion but is against 'choice' for so much else?
Inquiring minds want to know.
One of the decisions I must continually make is what brand of toilet I put in a home.
To avoid call backs I usually go mid priced and up. The low water volume pisses many buyers off. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep a new home priced so an average buyer can afford it.
Seems like such a simple concept, doesn't it? Give the consumer choice and incentives to go with the 'energy efficient' item, rather than force it and punish non compliance. Paul managed to silence the woman senator with this.
How is it that the left is all for 'choice' when it comes to abortion but is against 'choice' for so much else?
Inquiring minds want to know.
One of the decisions I must continually make is what brand of toilet I put in a home.
To avoid call backs I usually go mid priced and up. The low water volume pisses many buyers off. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep a new home priced so an average buyer can afford it.
We had to have the plumbers out several years ago to remove a few legos and a marker from one of our toilets -- kids ! They laughed at our cheap and ridiculous 'low flow' toilets. They back up frequently and two flushes is normal for . . well, number two. We have two different kinds of plungers and a manual auger (I think that's what it's called) and use them all.
Hmmm, 'low flow' responses to this thread.
How is it that the left is all for 'choice' when it comes to abortion but is against 'choice' for so much else?
How is it that the left is all for 'choice' when it comes to abortion but is against 'choice' for so much else?
Because they understand and respect the Constitution and its case law, the right to privacy with regard to abortion, or that Congress is authorized by the Constitution to regulate markets.
Consequently no one is opposed to choice; what you see, rather, is a pragmatic understanding that reasonable regulation is appropriate and necessary, given the nature of a modern, 21st Century industrialized economy.
Pauls reactionary economic paradigm may have been appropriate in the age of the horse-drawn carriage, but in the age of the modern global marketplace such a view is a pathetic anachronism.