Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Kenric Ward: EPA Putting Red Light on Amateur Car Racing
Because they can. A "power grab" by the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to crash America's amateur car-racing industry without putting so much as a dent in climate change, warns the chairman of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee. The EPA's move to regulate emissions on non-road racing vehicles contradicted ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
busybody,
EPA,
government,
individual liberty,
liberalism,
regulation,
restrictions
Bob Russell: Free Market Should Determine Wages
Give low-skill workers a chance. I think the Minimum Wage Law is one of the worst things that government has ever done. It’s often said that people can’t live on $7.25 per hour as a reason for increasing the minimum wage. Of course, we all wish that everyone could make more, but it is not up to us or even the government to say what people ... MORE
Stephen Chapman: No Opiates For The Masses?
Drug war becomes war against pain relief. There is no problem so bad that government-imposed remedies cannot make it worse, spawn new problems or both. A new confirmation of that phenomenon may be on the way, thanks to new recommendations from an agency intent on curbing the use of opiates. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease ... MORE
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addiction,
drug war,
government,
nitwittery,
painkillers,
public health,
regulation,
restrictions
Anti-Party Law Turns Innocent Kids Into Criminals
by Steven Greenhut. Orange County Republican Party Chairman Fred Whitaker got into GOP politics because of his “belief in individual liberty, limited government and a free market,” according to the party’s website. His recent actions as an Orange councilman, however, show too little regard for liberty, governmental limits or the Constitution’s ... MORE
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crime,
government,
individual liberty,
recreation,
regulation,
restrictions,
rules,
students
Steven Greenhut: How Regulators Quietly Drive Up Costs
Seen and unseen. California political observers are understandably fixated on the
goings-on in the state legislature, which is the living embodiment of
what New York Judge Gideon Tucker wrote in an 1866 ruling:
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is
in session." Reporters and commentators also focus on major legal ... MORE
Patients In Pain, And A Doctor Who Must Limit Drugs
Gov't declares war on pain relief. Susan Kubicka-Welander, a short-order cook, went to her pain checkup appointment straight from the lunch-rush shift. “We were really busy,” she told Dr. Robert L. Wergin, trying to smile through deeply etched lines of exhaustion. “Thursdays, it’s Philly cheesesteaks.” Her back ached from a compression fracture; ... MORE
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citizens,
government,
health care,
medicine,
painkillers,
regulation,
restrictions,
self-interest
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare’s Tax-Time Torment
The bumbling Obamacare bureaucracy. Thousands of taxpayers must do without a form needed to claim a tax credit for their overpriced health-insurance premiums. Where is my 1095-A? This is what it must be like dealing with a government agency in a third world country.” That was the lament on Twitter of just one poor citizen this week trying ... MORE
Brittany Hunter: How Congress Is Giving Up Its Power
Unelected bureaucrats now call most of the shots. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law will hold a hearing on the growth of federal bureaucracy. At the center of the discussion is a legal principle known as “Chevron deference,” something few ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
government,
legislation,
policy,
politics,
regulation,
restrictions,
rules,
tactics
ObamaCare: WORSE Than A Complete Waste Of Money
by John Hinderaker. The findings of NPR and Harvard. National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans’ recent experience with health care. As to the Affordable Care Act, the survey’s findings are damning. They suggest that Obamacare has been ... MORE
Daniel Gelernter: Liberals Want Your Car Keys
Can computerized cars drive better than we can? The cover story of Time’s March 7 issue makes “the increasingly compelling case for why you shouldn’t be allowed to drive,” claiming that computerized cars are (or, it is hoped, will be) safer drivers than humans, and so the logical thing is to ban humans from driving altogether. The plan is ... MORE
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automation,
automobile,
control,
database,
drivers,
government,
liberalism,
regulation,
safety
Gov’t Regulations Weigh On Gloomy Small-Business Owners
an Investor's Business Daily editorial. Red Tape: Two new surveys of small-business owners show they’re “treading water,” and the government isn’t throwing them any lifelines. Instead, it’s weighing them down with more and more costly and burdensome regulations. Optimism about economic conditions last month hit a two-year low ... MORE
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business,
compliance costs,
economics,
entrepreneur,
free market,
regulation,
restrictions,
rules
John Stossel: Libertarian Lite
Lighten up, truth can be scary. In this year's Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote. We libertarians must be doing something wrong. Maybe our anti-government message is too ... MORE
Oregon Legislature Repeals Laws Of Supply & Demand
It is not likely to work out well. Like the apocryphal story
of the state legislature that passed a law dictating that pi equals 3,
the Oregon state legislature has passed two laws that pretend the laws
of supply & demand don’t exist. The difference is that, in reality,
no state legislature ever did pass a law saying that pi equals 3, but
Oregon’s ... MORE
American Slips To 11th Place In Economic Freedom
Government is slowly squandering our heritage. A “solid C,” they call it in school. Not flunking, certainly, but also not excelling. That grade characterizes the score of 75.4 that the United States earned on the Heritage Foundations’s 2016 “Index of Economic Freedom,” which grades countries on such factors as property rights, government ... MORE
John Stossel: Regulating The Future
Government pretends it's the cause of progress. Then it strangles innovation. We know government understands that new technologies are important. The military invests in robots and traffic cops use radar guns. But when the rest of us use robots or fly drones, government gets eager to put rules in place before things get ... MORE
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