The Growing Red Tape in America
Economist magazine
reports:
A Florida law requires vending-machine labels to urge the public to file a report if the label is not there. The Federal Railroad Administration insists that all trains must be painted with an “F” at the front, so you can tell which end is which. Bureaucratic busybodies in Bethesda, Maryland, have shut down children’s lemonade stands because the enterprising young moppets did not have trading licences. The list goes hilariously on.
But red tape in America is no laughing matter. The problem is not the rules that are self-evidently absurd. It is the ones that sound reasonable on their own but impose a huge burden collectively. America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire. Unlike Europeans, whose lives have long been circumscribed by meddling governments and diktats from Brussels, Americans are supposed to be free to choose, for better or for worse. Yet for some time America has been straying from this ideal.
"America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire. Unlike Europeans, whose lives have long been circumscribed by meddling governments and diktats from Brussels, Americans are supposed to be free to choose, for better or for worse."
ReplyDeleteThe writer obviously hasn't visited the U.S. lately.
We are going to be just like Europeans where the only means of survival for many will be resorting to the black market economy to avoid the cost of excessive regulation.
ReplyDeleteThe economy would be booming in about a week if they just did this one thing: throw every book of laws written since sometime around 1900 into a huge fire.
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