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Bucky

(55,334 posts)
21. A conservative who's against the results of market forces?
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 06:24 PM
Aug 2024
They shift norms, incentives, and choices, often invisibly and involuntarily.


Families not having kids and taking their dogs to the park are the result of the choices that drive market demand. He wants the government to directly choose the incentives that people respond to.

That ain't free market conservatism. That's high church patriarchal anti-republicanism conservatism.
Then the maternal mortality rate should be *NEGLIGIBLE*, the cost of giving birth should be *NEGLIGIBLE* ck4829 Aug 2024 #1
Weirdo! AmBlue Aug 2024 #2
Kevin Roberts, like Trump, speaks in CODES.... ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2024 #3
Now it's dog parks; not content with insulting cat ladies, Ocelot II Aug 2024 #4
That made me barf. lastlib Aug 2024 #9
And if they DON'T want children, that is also their right. lastlib Aug 2024 #11
F_ck this busybody in everyone's bedroom and business. Let him keep talking, getting his views out there as he's... brush Aug 2024 #5
Crotch monitors. Ocelot II Aug 2024 #10
Yeah, some nerve. brush Aug 2024 #18
somebody posted earlier here on DU that Stardust Mirror Aug 2024 #6
Heehee! You went there. brush Aug 2024 #19
He's weird. Wednesdays Aug 2024 #7
Ya know what Traildogbob Aug 2024 #8
Dog parks? He has a problem with dog parks?? tulipsandroses Aug 2024 #12
Dog parks take up real estate that should be for children. Ocelot II Aug 2024 #13
This is such a silly complaint. The dog parks take up a small amount of space, in comparison to the sprawl of the rest tulipsandroses Aug 2024 #14
It took some time to discover that Kevin's wife had a name. Michelle. suegeo Aug 2024 #15
Fair play, to find out about Kevin's family... suegeo Aug 2024 #16
College boys upset at seeing a poster of a bra? Brenda Aug 2024 #22
Kick. Merlin Stone "When God was a Woman" suegeo Aug 2024 #17
get that, little ladies? Skittles Aug 2024 #20
A conservative who's against the results of market forces? Bucky Aug 2024 #21
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