the population). Labor unions routinely take credit for all of this while pursuing policies which impede the very institutions of capitalism that are the cause of their over time, less labor was required to produce the same levels of output. As competition became more intense, many employers competed for the best employees by
insurance, something that will certainly drive up its costs and make it less competitive compared to unionized stores. The ultimate goal is to get the company to up grocery prices—all in the “public interest,” of course. As long as there is competition by the superior, nonunion grocery stores, the unionized stores cannot essentially the same outcome. In either case, it is a patently anti-consumer policy that can only harm the employees of the “targeted” company. The whole idea of
become a high-profile “unofficial” spokesman for the administration on child-care policy. His state-level political vehicle for promoting the initiative, which will be law’s stated objective of eliminating “duplicative administrative systems,” i.e., competition. And politically unapproved day-care providers who have different ideas
kind of socialism. As Mises described it in his 1950 essay, “Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism,” America is becoming more and more socialist because “all have been greatly enhanced, and a few large corporations who will face reduced competition from smaller and now overburdened firms. Another recent example of
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), of Waco fame. Ben Lieberman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has found more than 100 peer-reviewed studies in the of the health benefits of moderate drinking. When Seagrams abandoned a 48-year policy of not advertising on television in 1996, Congressman Joseph Kennedy (D-MA),
of Auto Fuel Economy Standards, Current and Proposed,” by Julie DeFalco, in Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘s Policy Publication, June 1997, and “Death by Regulation,” by Sam Kazman, in
watch over, and punish ranchers, farmers and supermarkets is also on Schlosser’s policy menu, further revealing his rather childishly naïve, pie-in-the-sky view of Schlosser’s economic ignorance: Advertising makes the fast-food industry more competitive, and therefore more likely to offer healthier food. If McDonald’s is the
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