Much of regulation is a way of protecting high-IQ people from competition by those who aren't quite as smart.
One reasonable definition of intelligence is people who thrive on complexity.
“One reasonable definition of intelligence is people who thrive on complexity. “
Since befriending a green card holder I have discovered an entire underground economy. The problem with regular citizens using it is there are laws making us liable for anything they do to themselves or others. That’s the insurance “legitimate” businesses must labor under. You could lose everything. This limits the size those off-book businesses can grow to. And, their off-books business won’t translate to their new status if they go legitimate. Fixing a toilet, for example, is a $250 visit fee plus parts (suitably marked up) plus $x/hour. It can easily run $500. Most if not all their current clients can’t afford that as they too are living in the margins. I’d say my neighbor is surviving on WAY less than I used to pay in income taxes. When somebody hit her car she couldn’t pay the deductible to use her insurance to get it repaired. It came down to fixing the car or eating.
You can talk about intelligence but please don't use the conventional self-serving "IQ" standard designed by people in academia to make other people in academia look smart. Some of the most successful self-made and "smartest" business people I know would score low on these "IQ" tests and I know of a several members of MENSA, or those who could qualify, who live meager, miserable lives.
That brings up two points:
(1) Democrats understand their voting blocks and target them with simple slogans like "Bush lied" and "war on women". This is done for a reason.
(2) Democrat scandals are most often very complex and are not easily compressed into simple sound bites for the masses. Examples include the IRS scandal and the mess in Benghazi.
The Democrats know their base very well.