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> But it's a persuasive argument.

Persuasive to what type of people?

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Even to a lefty liberal like me. But I'm open to data that, actually, it'll turn out fine.

What doesn't work is laws that aren't enforced. Either enforce them or repeal them.

> Even to a lefty liberal like me. But I'm open to data that, actually, it'll turn out fine.

So conclusion before evidence?

At least the founders had the foresight to codify innocent-until-proven-guilty.

People are allowed to have gut feelings about how things will turn out, based on their internal "world model". Nowhere did I say I had reached a conclusion. Since we don't have data either way, you're doing the same thing as me, but in the other direction.

This isn't anything like innocent-until-proven-guilty.

People who understand budget constraints. Economics applies even outside of capitalism and democratic states.

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