Negative Space: regulations
- The Bureaucracy Event Horizon
- Government bureaucracy is the ultimate broken window.
- California threatens Amazon, kills affiliate programs
- By this time, California had to know that its new law would not bring in new tax revenue. The tax headaches aren’t worth the trouble of maintaining affiliate programs. The only reason to pass the law was to kill affiliate programs at places like Amazon and Overstock. I don’t understand; what is it about affiliate programs that states don’t like?
- How the left bribes big business
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There’s a reason giant corporations and the biggest conglomerates are almost all donors to Democrats if they prefer one party over another. The left’s policies kill their upstart competitors. Big government hurts small businesses far more than it hurts big businesses.
- Netflix lobbies Washington, Google lobbies press
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Netflix is following other tech companies into political lobbying, and Google lobbies the press as well.
- The Parable of the Mexican Farmer
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Betsey Stevenson’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs, Jared Bernstein.
- Regulations cost money
- Regulations cost money. Do politicians really not understand this?
- The Star Trek Experience: Stanley Jaffe was right
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In 1992, Paramount executive Stanley Jaffe single-handedly killed an audacious, innovative, one-in-a-million Las Vegas attraction. Because that’s what he was hired to do.
- What children don’t do, adults don’t know
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What children learn, the adult they become understands better.
- Zeno’s motorcar
- Automobiles are awesome machines. But sometimes it seems as though they’re stuck twenty years in the past.
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- The joys of being a small business owner in Obama’s America
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“The toughest thing we did was layoff our 5 full time employees, working more hours ourselves and bridging the gap with occasional freelancers. The decision was painful, but necessary once we evaluated the impact of Obamacare and rising costs of doing business.… I roll my eyes every time Obama gives a speech about making loans available to businesses—that’s a very bad business plan in a weak economy.”
- Repealing These Two Regulations Could Save You 31 Cents per Gallon of Gas
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“The repeal of two costly federal restrictions would lower the price of gas by 31 cents a gallon and save a typical American family $247 per year.”
