Originally Posted by Winged Wheeler

Your point about the slippery slope fallacy is correct. There are surprisingly few things/processes about which we have suffcient information to make bulletproof predictions about the outcomes. I have been as critical as anyone about bad arguments and public policy.

I am content, however, to let this one lie. What will happen is exactly what happened with schools. I will be forced to pay for an inferior product that I choose not to use. So I am going to wind up paying twice--once for me and my family and once more for non-producers.

If a bad argument saves me from this expense, I can live with that.

WW