tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post6767472237225266858..comments2024-03-29T04:41:56.077-05:00Comments on The Grumpy Economist: Hounded out of businessJohn H. Cochranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04842601651429471525noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-31944383584981727362016-07-30T20:26:08.764-05:002016-07-30T20:26:08.764-05:00Welcome to administrative state tyranny. It has b...Welcome to administrative state tyranny. It has been here a long time, getting worse and all politician wanting to correct the situation and not benefiting from it have been marginalized and silenced. Just like in corrupt crony capitalist hell holes like Mexico and the Philippines you now need a political friend with connections to function or even stay in business. Meanwhile the out of control money printing and spending continues while almost all economic statistics dealing with average non Washington D.C. citizens tanks. The counties surrounding D.C now have the highest in the world ratio of capital city average earnings to average citizen earnings. Essentially we in the provinces are living in the Hunger Games without the games. Tom of the Missourihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15179148907959331680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-91016069025073486012015-12-15T11:31:18.385-06:002015-12-15T11:31:18.385-06:00Interesting read from a philosophical perspective....Interesting read from a philosophical perspective. <br /><br />http://www.friesian.com/fiction.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-42968418647519044492015-11-24T18:46:56.979-06:002015-11-24T18:46:56.979-06:00I would like to see propertyy zoning, in general, ...I would like to see propertyy zoning, in general, outlawed. Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-60385534427386851102015-11-24T05:28:19.473-06:002015-11-24T05:28:19.473-06:00Your last paragraph nails the perverse selection o...Your last paragraph nails the perverse selection of unprincipled regulation. Iagos wouldn't be so bothersome without their Othellos. And naive viewers only see the political actors without appreciating the formative environment.Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-33385759491808269762015-11-24T02:27:29.222-06:002015-11-24T02:27:29.222-06:00Bad laws and useless bureaucracies never go away.Bad laws and useless bureaucracies never go away.khodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14159304285391375601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-54361755147499696132015-11-24T01:52:01.523-06:002015-11-24T01:52:01.523-06:00"LabMD clearly needed a friend in high places..."LabMD clearly needed a friend in high places to call and say "make this problem go away." Its successors will not make that mistake."<br /><br />No wonder politicians will never rein in the regulatory state. Much power obtains from their ability to hand out political favors such as "making things go away".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-5375066012789049292015-11-23T21:06:14.186-06:002015-11-23T21:06:14.186-06:00The FTC is an agency that has never had a clear ma...The FTC is an agency that has never had a clear mandate. Their statute commands them to forbid unfair trade practices. They should have been shut down for general uselessness years ago. Fat Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554029467445000453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-53644047093916806572015-11-23T18:37:15.948-06:002015-11-23T18:37:15.948-06:00HIPAA was passed in 1996, two years before there w...HIPAA was passed in 1996, two years before there was a Google; it's a failed piece of legislation that has produced more costs than benefits. LabMD is just a visible fatality, there are allot more less visible. <br /><br />HIPAA is a bad solution to a non-problem. T.A.Coss, RNUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13975369917993005535noreply@blogger.com