A Great Idea…With the Best of Intentions!

In this delightful video from Reason magazine, they talk about how some policies implemented by government that often seem like a good idea have some interesting unintended consequences. The moral of the story? Trying to make people do things will often lead them to doing other stupid things or skirting around the system entirely. In this video, we see how Argentine bachelors avoided being taxes and how alerting drivers to the dangers of driving in Texas actually increased car accidents. You can’t control for every eventuality.