Regulation
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Yes You Can Be Too Careful
Just because something is possible doesn’t mean it’s likely, though — or worth more than cursory attention.
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That Fake Poll on the Green New Deal
Given the way that they skewed their poll results toward the GND with biased and loaded questioning, it’s reasonable to ask whether their research output crossed the ethical line separating scholarship from politically motivated advocacy.
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Break Up Government, Not Tech Companies
Elizabeth Warren knows the real problem is that watching and controlling people’s lives is a natural monopoly, and should be the exclusive realm of government.
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With Zuckerberg’s Shift, Social Media Is Growing Up
It’s too little, too late, but Facebook has now promised to adapt. Open and public? Forget it. Smaller groups, closed, and private is the new way.
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The Socialists Always Come For the Kids, Eventually
Beware, my friends. Socialists may start off believing that they are for the well being of all. But once they turn their attention to matters of control, they eventually discover that controlling demographics is essential to making all their dreams come true. That’s when they come after a fundamental human right.
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Vaping Is Saving Lives
Sadly, the FDA has frozen the marketplace by saying that existing products could remain on the market pending approval (they still have not clarified how to get approval) but that no new products would be allowed to enter the market after 2016 and no changes could be made to existing products.
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Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities
China no longer wants your leftover pizza box. Nor your empty 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew. They are being burned in the US instead.
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Why Does Child Care in Massachusetts Cost Four Times What it Does in Mississippi?
In the discussion of the nation’s problem with child care costs, a crucial factor has gone mostly unmentioned. This is one of the most regulated industries. These regulations are driving up costs. Adding more government control of the industry risks making a bad situation even worse.
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Lobbying Is Like Robbing a Record Store
Society is worse off to the tune of what these firms would have produced had they actually devoted those resources to creating wealth rather than simply redistributing it.
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The High Cost of Regulating Child Care
Even the most well-intentioned top-down regulation of child care will inevitably increase its costs and likely stifle innovation while having limited impact on the ultimate quality of the care provided.
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The Nightmare Fairyland of the Green New Dealers
If the Green New Dealers have their way, the interventionist state will be taken to an entirely new and more destructive level as one great plan for global salvation is imposed on everyone, everywhere, with no avenues of escape in our age of electronic Big Brother surveillance and control.
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The Childcare Shortage Is Not a Mystery
Daycare for all is a great idea. A new government program is the worst possible way to get there.
