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I think both that policy issues are often less complicated than you make them out to be, and also that the people in charge are unfit to deal with them. The problem isn't complexity, it's judgement. If I had to pick my pet peeve, look at public or private education and its policies. The questions are simple, the answers are crazy.

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I'd say that part of the problem too is that the people in charge are willing to ignore the conclusions of good judgement in favor of graft.

I'm not going to disagree with anything you've said. I would just maintain that connecting policy initiatives to the real world does tend to be rather complex in terms of budgeting, administration, staffing and oversight.

Now this is completely independent from the politicking that often deforms what should be common sense solutions like what you mention in your example above.

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