Europe

[Beskar]

Scrap the directives that tell us what hours we can work, what vitamins we can buy, how long we can sit on tractors, how loudly we can play our music. Return power to national governments or, better, to local authorities – or, best of all, to individual citizens.

Wait... what?

This comment wasn't fully worked out. While on the face of it seems good, it is actually quite bad.

Firstly, several of these regulations are actually far cheaper than the alternatives and would cost the tax payer even more money. It might cut the cost at an EU level, but it would cost tax payers more if taken at a lower level, especially at National level governments or even local level government would now have to do regulation themselves. The advantages of it at a EU level are pretty obvious. Tax payers of the entire EU would result via pure basic mathetical ratio far cheaper than at lower levels which could result in exponential rises of cost of 10 to 20 fold for the Tax payer.

"What vitamins we can buy" I think regulation here is pretty obvious. They do experiments to see if the vitamins are actually safe for human consumption, and actually make sure they are clearly labelled and advised correctly. Helping the individuals to be able to do a good choice and get stuff that is good for them.

"What hours we can work" is in regards to work hours, this is to stop people from getting overworked by bosses. People if they really want, can work more than the maximum amount of hours at their own choice, opposed to being forced to do so. Just having it done at a cross level EU just makes everyone in the EU have that safe-guard.

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