It's not false. You're confusing stated preferences vs. revealed preferences. People might say they want to enshrine their legal right to abortion or that they don't want people to get tax breaks for investing in depressed areas, but they don't do anything that would actually make those preferences a reality (i.e. elect candidates based on those issue who will enact the policies people say they want). So when it comes down to it, people do not actually want those things enough to take the actions necessary to make them happen.
It is false. You're confusing people prioritizing their teams winning over wanting other things.
In an ideal world, they would want both and would get both. However they have to pick. Hence it is not that they don't want it, it is that they want it and cannot get it because they don't want to pay the cost of getting it.
Yes. That means that your claim
> it's because the government (and by extension, the people it represents) want to incentivize that particular activity
particularly the
> (and by extension, the people it represents)
is false.
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> Per your earlier statement, that is not what most voters want. They want their team to win.
False. The vast majority of people want their team to win.
Simultaneously, most people want abortion to be legal.
These statements are both true. The logical fallacy is here is an inability to recognize that it's and, not or.