02-05-2016, 12:50 PM
(02-05-2016, 12:15 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: But then you have to look at what rights we recognize. The basis of a regulated marketplace is those making the regulations inferring rights that may not be explicit in our laws. After all, there is nothing in our Constitution that would explicitly call for a safe work environment, fair wages, or any of that. But those rights have been inferred through the years and others in addition to them as we have regulated our economy.
We tend to oversimplify the whole idea of the free market, it's as complex as abortion in all honesty. It's just a matter of abortion hits you in a more primal way and so forces you to look deeper, IMO.
The biggest thing for me for regulations is where people can't make informed decisions. So a restaurant or a bar that allows smoking is obvious to anyone, and they can choose to go there or not. A patron can not determine the cleanliness of a kitchen in a restaurant.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall
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