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.
Hikes to minimum mileage requirements make cars less affordable while doing little to improve air quality.
The average California state government worker earns 23 percent more in total compensation than their similarly skilled and educated private-sector counterpart.
Calls for finding efficiencies in government by electing or appointing people to “run it like a business” are futile.
Every government law, regulation, or ordinance must ultimately meet noncompliance with jail cells and government agents with guns.
At this point, the Postal Service is rapidly becoming little more than an income maintenance program for the 630,000 employees.
Powerful Manhattanites hand down the laws the rest us of New Yorkers must follow. Many lives and businesses are ruined as a result.
Looking more like an old-school authoritarian regime, the US government now has the power to revoke your passport if you owe taxes.
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.
Oddly, some libertarians argue that decriminalization is better than outright legalization. They're wrong.
