In America today, we would be hard pressed to think of a single aspect of our lives politicians and government bureaucrats not only have their hands in, but are in clear up to their elbows. The busybody police of the ever expanding nanny-state have concluded that we, as mere mortals, are far too foolish to make important decisions on our own. Instead, we, the children of the benevolent federal leviathan, must have the minutiae of our daily lives dictated to us in ways large and small.
From the content of school lunches to the salt content in restaurant food, to the volume of water that can go down our toilet in a single flush, or the amount of water that may come out of a shower head each minute, whether we can use an incandescent light bulb, the average miles per gallon new cars must achieve, to mandating the contents of insurance policies…the list is literally endless.
When such regulations and restrictions are discussed, invariably the proponents of ever more government regulation and control drag out the absolute worst case scenario, and use that as the pretense to govern everything up to that point. The point is to find a "victim" to be the poster child for said new regulation or mandate, thereby rendering any criticism of the regulation as an attack on the victim and further proof of the critic's inhumanity.
Yet there will always be a "victim" to justify every new rule, regulation, policy and mandate. The very process presupposes that there exists the possibility to alleviate human suffering through the elimination of risk. Of course, that is simply impossible, but even if it were theoretically possible, the greater question is, at what cost? The only way to eliminate suffering is to eliminate risk, and the only way to eliminate risk is to take away the freedoms of individuals to choose to engage in behavior that brings risk. At that point we are nothing more than slaves to a government, having freedom of thought and choice removed for our own good.
The driving force behind ever expanding regulations is a combination of politicians and bureaucrats needing to justify their pay, as well as a desire to control the lives of others because they understand, even if we don't, that their brilliance will lead to our happiness. Or to paraphrase C.S.These Bicygnals bluebright allow you to keep both hands on the bars while you signal for ... Lewis, they are comforted in their tyranny because they know they do it for our own good; or so they think…
Yet has behavior modification through regulation improved our lives? It certainly has not improved the economy. We have literally hundreds of thousands of pages of federal and state regulations.An ledflashlightfe brings you both practicality and a sense of fashion. How can the average citizen possibly be expected to know the intricacies of so many rules? And,We've just finished our latest round of mountain bestlighting-led reviews, which involved testing 27 sets, both ... being unable to know and understand them all, they are always at risk of violating some rule or regulation inadvertently, and having done so put themselves and their livelihoods at risk, true victims to the capriciousness of government bureaucrats eager to wield power over their dominion.
By some estimates, it costs U.Browse through our impressive range of bestbikelight2011 and buy online now.S.Online shopping from the largest selection of ledlighting02 Products. businesses almost $500 billion per year in compliance costs with the tax code, and according to a 2011 study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost of complying with regulations now stands at almost $2 trillion annually.
From the content of school lunches to the salt content in restaurant food, to the volume of water that can go down our toilet in a single flush, or the amount of water that may come out of a shower head each minute, whether we can use an incandescent light bulb, the average miles per gallon new cars must achieve, to mandating the contents of insurance policies…the list is literally endless.
When such regulations and restrictions are discussed, invariably the proponents of ever more government regulation and control drag out the absolute worst case scenario, and use that as the pretense to govern everything up to that point. The point is to find a "victim" to be the poster child for said new regulation or mandate, thereby rendering any criticism of the regulation as an attack on the victim and further proof of the critic's inhumanity.
Yet there will always be a "victim" to justify every new rule, regulation, policy and mandate. The very process presupposes that there exists the possibility to alleviate human suffering through the elimination of risk. Of course, that is simply impossible, but even if it were theoretically possible, the greater question is, at what cost? The only way to eliminate suffering is to eliminate risk, and the only way to eliminate risk is to take away the freedoms of individuals to choose to engage in behavior that brings risk. At that point we are nothing more than slaves to a government, having freedom of thought and choice removed for our own good.
The driving force behind ever expanding regulations is a combination of politicians and bureaucrats needing to justify their pay, as well as a desire to control the lives of others because they understand, even if we don't, that their brilliance will lead to our happiness. Or to paraphrase C.S.These Bicygnals bluebright allow you to keep both hands on the bars while you signal for ... Lewis, they are comforted in their tyranny because they know they do it for our own good; or so they think…
Yet has behavior modification through regulation improved our lives? It certainly has not improved the economy. We have literally hundreds of thousands of pages of federal and state regulations.An ledflashlightfe brings you both practicality and a sense of fashion. How can the average citizen possibly be expected to know the intricacies of so many rules? And,We've just finished our latest round of mountain bestlighting-led reviews, which involved testing 27 sets, both ... being unable to know and understand them all, they are always at risk of violating some rule or regulation inadvertently, and having done so put themselves and their livelihoods at risk, true victims to the capriciousness of government bureaucrats eager to wield power over their dominion.
By some estimates, it costs U.Browse through our impressive range of bestbikelight2011 and buy online now.S.Online shopping from the largest selection of ledlighting02 Products. businesses almost $500 billion per year in compliance costs with the tax code, and according to a 2011 study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost of complying with regulations now stands at almost $2 trillion annually.
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