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[renke]

I have a deregulation example! It was nearly impossible to find Belgian beer like kriek in Germany because it was not legal to label it as beer. This had to be deregulated because of the common European market : )

[Phrenological]

So if they didn’t call it beer because of labeling standards, what was it sold as?

[renke]

brewed alcoholic beverage or so. but nearly no one was willing to import and relable it as it was too much hassle.

[daneel]

@renke

not legal to label it as beer

German Beer Purity Law of blahdeblahdeblah?

[renke]

exactly. the blahdeh part was mostly “protect German breweries against competition”

[davide405]

@daneel

German Beer Purity Law of blahdeblahdeblah?

Reinheitsgebot

[Mangochin]

So by removing the regulation, the German beer drinking public is inundated with inferior foreign piss water daring to call itself the beer they know and love. I know its a stretch. But it is not like the deregulation of utilities, banking or other tightly controlled industries done that used to protect the public.

[TailOfTruth]

@Mangochin

Can you name A SINGLE deregulation effort which benefited end users/consumers/ordinary citizenry?

Legalized MariJUana.

[Phrenological]

Decriminalization isn’t the sort of privatizing state and federal services we were discussing.

Besides, “medicinal” marijuana existed before this.

[TailOfTruth]

I know, but my inner libertarian couldn’t help being snarky, plus it really likes weed. Sorry.

[Nonentity]

@TailOfTruth

Legalized MariJUana.

Isn’t that actually more a case of adding regulation (at least, in the way it’s being carried out currently in the US)?

[hello_friends]

@fche

That’s a loaded question: it presumes that businesses can get away with breaking the law.

Reflect further on this question in the context of your change-government-to-a-pet-or-a-butler comment, and you may enjoy a big aha moment.

[TailOfTruth]

@Nonentity

Isn’t that actually more a case of adding regulation (at least, in the way it’s being carried out currently in the US)?

Hell yeah it is! Honestly though, I think it has something to do with not wanting my dealer putting heroine in my weed so I keep coming back to him. Dealers and producers can’t really do that if it’s being regulated because it’s a legal crop.

[Phrenological]

I knowwwww, there’s plenty of consensual “crimes” most all spectrum of happy mutants agree on.

[Mangochin]

I like the weed. It doesn’t like me. Always makes me pass out.

[Kimmo]

@fche

That’s a loaded question: it presumes that businesses can get away with breaking the law. (Assuming reasonable law, material degree of law-breaking, etc.) In practice, that is rarely if ever so, and no one in this thread has expressed any support for it.

[Kimmo]

[quote=“fche, post:155, topic:77613”]
Then indict & convict & punish.[/quote]

I do believe crime does once in a while occur.

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[anon8420928]

@Mangochin

Always makes me pass out.

May I consider this wistfully for a moment?

Damn my high tolerance to all comers.