[Leaning Right]

Step 1: Stop prosecuting shoplifters.
Step 2: Watch as shoplifting dramatically increases.
Step 3: Watch as stores close down and move somewhere else.

Oh, and don’t forget Step 4:

Step 4: Complain that there are no stores in the area.

[Wiser now]

Step five: demand and receive bus service to area where the store is now located.
Repeat step one, etc.

[ichabod1]

Then you FORCE them to stay open in your neighborhood.

If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

[bfh333]

Step 5. After the stores close down in those areas, they will come to YOURS in your area.

Unintended consequences indeed...