 can be quietly dropped after the publicity dies down).
A good negotiator can usually get something quietly dropped or greatly reduced if they are willing to let the other side have their cake and time in the light (that is, I won’t fight you now, but off-the-record, let’s drop this in 180 days, OK?)
How about some research on what actually becomes of these gouging law violations? I’m guessing not much.
Walt
Why should those cases be “quietly dropped”? If someone breaks the law shouldn’t they be punished?
Besides some of those fines are pretty hefty. That’s good revenue for the state or city.
Ron, a lot of rules/laws are symbolic and/or for popularity and are dependent mostly on voluntary compliance. Did you notice the violations are addressed on a written complaint with evidence-provided basis? How much do you suppose police would spend on enforcing speed limits if they only investigated and ticketed from other drivers’ written complaints that provide evidence for the ticket?
I’m still guessing most violations are not charged and the ones that are not much comes of them if you look a year or so later. I tried, but did not find, the final outcome in the Shepperdson case. I’m only addressing Jon’s resource usage complaint here and not the law itself.
“If someone breaks the law shouldn’t they be punished?”
It takes scarce resources to continue a fight to possibly eventually win. If publicly spanking a few people gets the voluntary rate to an acceptable percentage, that is all that is necessary. A rule/law/policy maker’s nightmare is that the voluntary compliance rate is zero.
Nothing promotes disrespect for the law like non-enforcement.
“It takes scarce resources to continue a fight to possibly eventually win.”
Taxpayer money is one resource that is seldom scarce. There seems to be an endless supply of it. It’s likely that any decision on whether or not to pursue a charge is at the whim of the prosecutor, not due to any concern for resources.
What is an acceptable rate of law breaking? And whatever happened to equal treatment under the law?
Ron, few things can be 100% and affordable (not even “O” rings for the Space Shuttle). If I can get 95% voluntary compliance with a “Do Not Touch”: sign on a delicate object in museum, and that is sufficient to protect that object, I am not going to pay for 2 armed guards 24/7 to guard that object.
Again, laws. rules, regulations, policies... are usually dependent on a very high voluntary compliance rate (some are never even intended to be enforced). I doubt the actual enforcement cost of the anti-gouging laws in an average state would even be a rounding error in the budget. Are you going to buy 19 generators and try the laws out during the next hurricane in Mississippi after Shepperdson?
How much would you budget to have a 100% compliance rate for speed limits in a city if you were a mayor of that city? Would any money be left over for anything else if you tried?
Ron,
>—-“Nothing promotes disrespect for the law like non-enforcement.”
It would be easier to take you seriously on this if you didn’t want the law enforced only by vigilantes and private security for those who could afford it.
>—“Taxpayer money is one resource that is seldom scarce. There seems to be an endless supply of it.”
It would be easier to take you seriously on this if you didn’t think that government debt was such a big problem. If it’s so easy to raise tax revenue then why is the government taking on such an alarming amount of debt? You can’t have it both ways here on the ease of collecting taxes.
>—” And whatever happened to equal treatment under the law?”
It would be easier to take you seriously on this if you didn’t support a system where justice was only available to those who could pay for it themselves or through private charity.
Hi Greg
Sorry I didn’t see your comment earlier.
I didn’t intend that you take me seriously.
BTW I think it’s government *spending* that’s a problem. Taxes and debt are just two ways to spend taxpayers’ money. And of course inflation is another.Statistical Science 1(2), pp. 157-170.
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