(November 2011) I remember from my college classes about slippery slope arguments, the idea being that they unfairly presume that one undesirable outcome of a new policy invariably would lead to another even more undesirable outcome, which would then lead to even worse ones until the momentum was unstoppable and all hell would break loose. Even though I knew that slippery slope arguments were supposed to be fallacious — not every little problem cascades into disaster — they still scared the daylights out of me. Maybe that was because I was a beginning skier at the time. Once I got up a head of steam on the slopes, look out below.
Which brings us to user fees.
