Bureaucracy and Regulation

Last week, Julian Assange was freed and the Chevron doctrine was overturned. These are huge wins for liberty. Not long ago, they felt completely out of reach.

For all of the claims that governments “create jobs,” in reality, government jobs come at a greater cost than any value those jobs may create. Government jobs are a burden to the economy.

Issues of immigration are complex. The current system of open borders, detention and expanding access to welfare is destructive to our body politic.  We need to come up with a better system that protects the rights of all.

Commonsense safety measures are being replaced in our working culture by an impossible “no risk” standard. A culture of “can do” is replaced by the culture of fear.

While protecting “intellectual property” has a good sound to it — even among libertarians — such policies are harmful to authentic property rights. We need to pursue another path.

Environmentalists insist on banning fossil fuels and refrigerant gasses in order to end heat waves. That means people will face future heat waves (which will always be with us) without air conditioning, bringing even more heat-related deaths.

Mainstream economists often claim that “market failure” is everywhere. However, when one investigates these so-called failures, one has to conclude that government intervention often is behind them.

People joke about doctors thinking of themselves as God, but over a century of government control of medical care, the distance between physicians and those they serve has become increasingly large.

It’s finally clear to everyone that President Biden is not running the federal government. Yet the government is carrying on as it always has. It’s important to understand why.

By separating the producer-consumer relationship that is applied to private goods and services, government regulations and "oversight" has transformed higher education for the worst. It's time to restore that proper relationship.