Topic: Regulation

Regulation

The Problem of Using Government Power is Bipartisan

– August 5, 2019

Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same big, abusive, and anti-freedom government coin.

Regulation

Mandatory Busing Shows That Government Can’t Fix Complex Problems

– July 23, 2019

Mandatory busing as advocated by many Democratic candidates is less a bad answer than the only answer to a terribly framed question emblematic of today’s miserable political landscape.

Regulation

Wage Floors Are Making My Son a Delinquent

– July 19, 2019

My posterity, my son, does not feel blessed by the laws of New Jersey that prevent him from exercising his liberty by finding employment of mutual benefit to himself and his employer.

Regulation

School Segregation and Busing: Lessons in Government Failure

– June 28, 2019

While offered as an ostensible corrective to the very real injustices of the school segregation that preceded it, busing itself is also a form of politically directed and centralized social planning.

Regulation

The Bad Theory Behind Overtime Rules

– June 21, 2019

With its mechanical understanding of the process of wealth generation, the Department of Labor wildly exaggerates the role of labor hours in discerning, determining, and measuring economic value.

Regulation

Bernie Sanders’s Messed Up Idea of Requiring Employee Ownership

– June 14, 2019

Efforts to change the composition of payments to employees, like those suggested by Sanders and championed by many on the left, are likely to leave the intended beneficiaries worse off. Such a policy means workers must choose between holding an under-diversified portfolio or incurring higher costs to achieve the appropriate mix of assets given their unique circumstances.

Regulation

The 7 Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century

– June 13, 2019

The bad news is that along with great economic performance has come a good bit of silly, one might even call it stupid, regulation and proposals for regulation.

Regulation

Want To Be an Eyelash Technician? You Will Need a License for that.

– June 7, 2019

Just as innovators shouldn’t have to ask the government for permission to bring new products to consumers, people who want to work and earn their livings by starting and running businesses shouldn’t have to ask the government for permission to do so.

Books, Regulation

These are Not Just Opinions

– May 30, 2019

Financial Exclusion is my nineteenth book and the vetting, editing, and publishing processes with AIER far surpassed those of the commercial and university presses I have published with previously.

Regulation

Flimsy Justifications to Restrict Your Freedom

– May 29, 2019

Even a young child understands, without need of further elaboration, that no action is rendered acceptable simply because lots of other people do it.

Regulation

The Plague of Meddling Political Busybodies

– May 28, 2019

The end goal of our planning paternalists is the command economy.

Regulation

Indiana Lawmaker Ignores Facts, Pushes Bill to Fight Teen Vaping

– May 24, 2019

Prohibition is nothing but an immoral act, as it intends to impose certain standards on individuals who should be naturally free to make their own decisions.