Tag: government regulations

The Poverty Line

It is fashionable to say that society must solve the problem of poverty.  But how? Redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the solution.   LBJ’s War on Poverty proved that government interference only served to prolong and intensify the…

Living Off the Interest

Depending on who you happen to listen to, some two-thirds, or three-fourths, or nine-tenths of the United States government is illegal — meaning that what it is and what it does it falls outside the limits prescribed by Article I,…

Federal Control Freaks Strike Again!

Buyers Beware: In February, the nanny state will institute new standards for residential dishwashers, the benefits of which for consumers are NIL. The control freaks that pass for regulatory agencies fully expect dishwasher sales to drop by one-third as the…

Government Destroys Jobs

If the media tells us that XYZ has created 1,000 new jobs we get excited; when QRS closes and jobs are lost, we’re sad and the politician who can provide a subsidy to save QRS is almost assured of wide-spread…