All restrictions on freedom have bad effects

I do not tend to distinguish between the various methods that government has of coercing us be they levying taxes, imposing bans or imposing regulations. But I appreciate many people do.

So, why don't I make much of a distinction? Firstly, because they are all restrictions on freedom and my empirical observation is that freedom works much better than unfreedom. Secondly, it is my observation that none of the restrictions on freedom (in whatever form they might take) that I have ever studied in any detail could be said to work particularly well an so, therefore, I tend to assume that none of the other ones work particularly well either.