Galt's Gulch

Web of regulations threaten Gulf Coast business

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 12 years ago to Economics
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People are beginning to get angry. The spark is going to ignite a powder keg.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years ago
    State laws vary. The deer hunter who doesn't know he needs a license is either Jed Clampett or he is lying.
    As for the larger picture, "ignorance of the law is no excuse" so if you step on a protected plant in your back woods, then "off with your head!" Ridiculous overkill!
    However, it is not logical to hunt a species to extinction. I think Mr. Spock said that... In the future more fisherman will become fish farmers. Some in California should have done this to save their agriculture business when they were shut down to save that snail darter. It would remove the enviro's argument and it could even have provided a new revenue streams selling the fry, and using the adults and deritus for fertilizer etc.
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    • Posted by khalling 12 years ago
      if there were no govt lands,shooting a species to extinction would not be an issue. if your revenue stream comes from allowing hunters on your land, you're going to make sure there's something to hunt. in Colorado, people couldn't mow their grass because of a little "preeble" mouse. turns out there's no such thing. also in Colorado, the deer have over run the neighborhoods. huge numbers grazing and lounging and running into cars etc all over the place. same with bears. for the deer, when winter comes and there's scarce food, they end up dying of starvation. fish and game team up with EPA team up with ATF and voila! anyone can be arrested any time for any thing. Have you read Rand Paul's book? amazing how powerful low level bureaucrats are
      http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455522759
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      • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years ago
        I quite agree. Here we have an overpopulation of deer because we have decreasing numbers of hunters. It isn't PC to kill Bambi... We have more car deer accidents, but I guess that is. Once though at the turn of the twentieth century the lumber industry had practically exterminated the deer population, and the elk, in addition to much of the forests. Nature is resilient and the trees and deer returned. The elk had to be replanted here a couple of decades ago. Now there are limited elk hunts.
        No, on the Rand Paul book. I do have one of his father's in the queue. Now it looks like I need to add a new one. So many books so little time...
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      • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 12 years ago
        That's the problem we have here. The deer population is out of control! There were people a couple of towns away who complained about a deer "thinning" effort by the town and local hunters. They didn't want to see innocent deer killed, but they apparently don't have an issue with the animals slowly starving to death. Rdiculous! And we have a local pack of coyotes and the occasional bear and bobcat to help, but it's really not enough.
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    • Posted by itisntluck 12 years ago
      "Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?"
      Mr. Spock, Star Trek IV.
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      • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 12 months ago
        Yes! That was it. It was the movie where they saved the whales for the future. Right... Kind of a silly movie. The best parts were when Mr. Spock used the Vulcan neck pinch on the miscreant on the bus, and when Scotty answered McCoys concerns over the paradox of giving transparent aluminum technology to the Plexiglas guy, by asking "how do we know he didn't invent it!" Funny.

        O.A.
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  • Posted by terrycan 12 years ago
    Laws and rules are useless unless someone breaks them.
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    • Posted by dave42 12 years ago
      There are two types of useful laws:
      1. Laws against force and fraud (murder, theft, etc).
      2. Laws specifying conventions where agreement is VERY beneficial (drive on left side vs right side of the road, 50HZ or 60HZ electricity, channel spacing for wifi, etc). It doesn't matter which one is used, it's just a LOT better if we all agree. (West coast uses 60HZ, east coast settles on 50HZ, what happens when they meet at the MIssissippi).
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