Legislatures as Kings Canute

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Submitted by Andrew Terhune (United States), Apr 11, 2018 08:53

You might as well pass a law to stop the tides as try to repeal the laws of economics. Both are beyond the powers of legislatures. Yet if any tried the first, they would be deemed insane. When they try the second, they are said to care for the workers. But both are doomed to fail.

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