...Brought on by articles like this one . It turns out that everything that went so horrifically wrong with the response to Katrina was not a failure of government, but the result of combining government and capitalism. The combination of government and socialism, on the other hand, would have succeeded admirably. Or so says this article, which
There has been much discussion on this blog and elsewhere about whether to rebuild severely hurricane-damaged areas so people can live there again, and who should assume the risk for doing so. This lawsuit by the government of Mississippi doesn’t bode well for sensible decision-making about rebuilding. One possible scenario that occurred to me:
I think I need one of these for the wall next to my desk. And if you need any proof that this pithy little observation is really true, check out this meeting of the states’ attorneys general. That’s right, boys and girls, only the feds can save us from the evil that is price gouging. I wonder if only an economic distortion of this type on a
The Washington Post reports that the government of Massachusetts is threatening the grocery chain Whole Foods with criminal penalties for the unspeakable crime of...considering opening on Thanksgiving. I’m familiar with blue laws, but until I read this I didn’t realize that some states’ blue laws apply to holidays. As an example of business using
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