I stated the other day that our elected officials are not listening to their constituents. I also stated that behavior in this country is being modified or “nudged” in certain directions.
I was promptly told that our elected officials ARE listening and I, along with others are promoting fear mongering and acting like Chicken Little.
Before I draw the ire of my fellow “cowboys” I would like to state this post is not for the person who likes to make his own little editorial postings that take statements out of context and provide links to unrelated boating accidents. It has become very clear that that individual does not respond when he is found in error so pointing it out once again would be meaningless. This post is for the members who don’t have knowledge of the “nudge” reference.
Cass Sunstein is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He was the author of a book called Nudge in which he states his theory about behavioral economics where the government can use incentives, or “nudges”, rather than heavy-handed regulation to drive behavior.
An example of a nudge:
Cass Sunstein believes it is immoral to eat meat. His solution is not to outlaw steak but to make it so expensive that it takes it out of reach for most Americans (nudge). Well how do you achieve that? Simple, dramatically increase the cost of feed for the cattle producers and tax their grazing land as commercial property. After all cattle producers are minorities in this country and increasing their costs exponentially will not get the public outcry that a 300% tax on meat and poultry would.
Can you draw a correlation between this and the speed limit?
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