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Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Federal Regulations Cost US Businesses $2 Trillion
by Chad Moutray. Choking out small business. Manufacturing leaders, like many other Americans, have been frustrated with the slow pace of growth so far this year, particularly in the first quarter. While manufacturers are mostly upbeat about demand and output over the coming months, they also remain somewhat tentative in their ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks
Smothered by regulation. Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who
tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his
house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's
getting
a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March, ... MOREJohn Stossel: Green Monster
Thanks, Environmental Protection Agency! You've required sewage treatment plants, catalytic converters on cars and other things that made the world cleaner than the world in which I grew up. Good work. Today, America's waterways are so much cleaner that I swim in New York City's once-filthy Hudson River — right beside skyscrapers ... MOREWashington Times Editorial: Water Vigilantes In California
Nobody likes a tattletale, but snitching comes naturally to a certain kind of busybody. The remarkable drought in California has produced a new category of righteous snitches called “water vigilantes.” They prowl through neighborhoods with smartphones, creeping through the shrubs and bushes in the dead of night looking for working sprinklers ... MORESam Batkins: The Nation's $100 Billion Regulations Tab
Obama’s pen-and-phone regulations are very costly. What does President Obama’s “Year of Action” mean, exactly? The answer is more than $100 billion in regulatory burdens so far this year, putting the nation on track for $200 billion by year’s end. This is what “using his pen and his phone” means for countless manufacturers, energy ... MOREHow Government Forces the Poor Into Black Markets
by Peter St. Onge. From the left we often see tension between those who want to help the poor, and those who want to help the government. One recent example of this is the proposal to ban cash forwarded by Harvard’s Ken Rogoff. The gist of Rogoff’s beef with cash is that cash fuels the black market,
and it makes it harder for the ... MOREReal Impact of the NYC Soda Ban's Well-Deserved Defeat
by Baylen Linnekin. The option-destroyers lose one. Last week, the New York State Court of
Appeals—the state's highest court—dealt a final
death blow to New York City's reviled soda ban. The decision,
which upheld two lower court rulings, drew an important line in the
sand across which New York City's activist health department may no
longer ... MOREColorado's Cannabis Consumption Conundrum
by Jacob Sullum. Buying pot is easy; smoking it is hard. For cannabis consumers who are accustomed to the black market's
meager selection and iffy quality, Colorado's dispensaries are a
revelation: dozens of strains, each with a distinctive bouquet,
fresh enough that you can actually smell the difference.
Denver-area budtenders, who say ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: The Case For Knife Rights
Big government overreach claims new class of victims. A certain fellow—we’ll call him Fred—broke the law a while ago. He didn’t mean to. He didn’t even know he was doing it. Nevertheless, had he been caught he could have gone to jail—for a year. Fred lives in Virginia. Last fall he went on a camping trip. Not knowing what the terrain ... MOREHow Excessive Regulation Victimizes Average Americans
by James Gattuso and Diane Katz. In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama vowed to wield his executive powers when faced with congressional resistance to his legislative agenda: “America does not stand still – and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation … that’s what I .... MORE68,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens Caught And Released
by Stephen Dinan. Immigration agents tried to deport only about a fourth of the cases they encountered in 2013, said a report being released Monday from the Center for Immigration Studies that shows just how much President Obama’s policies have cut down on potential enforcement. Jessica Vaughan, the report’s author, called it a ... MOREAbby Wisse Schachter: The War On Fun
When safety becomes a god. In 1859, the esteemed magazine Scientific American issued a warning about young people's "pernicious excitement" over a trendy game: chess. The shuffling of pawns and rooks was "a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements ... MORE
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