Bureaucracy and Regulation

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Mark Thornton

A combination of federal sugar subsidies, federal regulations on pollution, and federal control of Lake Okeechobee (a giant lake in southern Florida) runoff guidelines has created a recipe for disaster.

Gary Galles

Hikes to minimum mileage requirements make cars less affordable while doing little to improve air quality.

Robert Fellner

The average California state government worker earns 23 percent more in total compensation than their similarly skilled and educated private-sector counterpart.

Brian Balfour

Calls for finding efficiencies in government by electing or appointing people to “run it like a business” are futile.

Ryan McMaken

Every government law, regulation, or ordinance must ultimately meet noncompliance with jail cells and government agents with guns. 

James Bovard

At this point, the Postal Service is rapidly becoming little more than an income maintenance program for the 630,000 employees.

Gregory Bresiger

Powerful Manhattanites hand down the laws the rest us of New Yorkers must follow. Many lives and businesses are ruined as a result. 

Ryan McMaken

Looking more like an old-school authoritarian regime, the US government now has the power to revoke your passport if you owe taxes. 

William L. Anderson

Profit-oriented business organizations that demand political conformity in the workplace are mimicking government agencies, and we must turn to Mises's book Bureaucracy for guidance.

Chris Calton

Oddly, some libertarians argue that decriminalization is better than outright legalization. They're wrong.