# So, are ITRC's suggestions well-advised? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-itrcs-suggestions-well-advised/713501 "2015-02-24T10:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-itrcs-suggestions-well-advised/713501/11 "2015-02-25T17:18:39Z")
> [@What would you change about the US government if you could start from scratch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-change-about-the-us-government-if-you-could-start-from-scratch/713268/40): > > The Bill of Rights should include one or more amendments protecting our economic freedoms, in addition to the existing amendments protecting personal freedoms. It should include the following rules: > > - The government may not establish any maximum or minimum price for the sale of any item. Government-established minimum or maximum prices are often a bad idea with unfortunate unintended consequences, but I’m afraid that such a rule could also have unfortunate unintended consequences. There’s no way I’d support such an amendment without running it by a few economists first. > [@](#): > > - The government may not force the American people to purchase anything. I’m guessing this is a dig at the ACA for “forcing” the American people to purchase health insurance. But it might be interpreted as forbidding taxation in general, since taxes “force” Americans to “purchase” the services their taxes are spent on. And if it doesn’t forbid taxation, it removes one of the alternatives to it, making it more likely/necessary that the government has to get into the health care (e.g.) business directly. > [@](#): > > - The government may not pass any law specifically designed to favor any one private corporation or union. This one’s heart is in the right place, but I’d predict a nightmare of challenges to anything the government does, on the grounds that somebody benefitted from it and somebody else didn’t. > [@](#): > > - No one may be forced to join a union. Making America a “right-to-work” country, eh? This is currently an issue here in Illinois, thanks to our new governor, and I personally am not sure which side to support on this issue. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-itrcs-suggestions-well-advised/713501)._