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• I'm not someone who thinks the government is all bad or is all good. Nor is any agency.
• Controlling something through government is just a political process that increases bureaucracy: a series of rules, processes, hierarchies that slow down progress (red-tape), but increase potential accountability and order.
• Good or bad, it is a balance between the needs of the problem and cost of the solution: did you get the implementation right?
• If it could be done with industry cooperative and/or private licensing organizations, at a small fraction the size, with more accountability. Wouldn't that be better?
• If someone can't ask these questions sincerely, then they're not up for a discussion on public policy, and are incapable of understanding how to avoid the moral hazard in the future.

So I point out the abuses/problems, to understand what we've been lied to about, and what we might want to watch for in the future -- and to think about those real economic and societal balances. How we can make real progress towards something more beneficial to society, instead of just leftist "progress" (progressive) just meaning bigger government with less individual liberty and less government accountability.