Regulation

In the big picture, the best way for the government to protect my safety would be for it to protect my freedom to look after myself.

Fox News reports that the International Code Council, an organization that develops model building code policies, is finalizing its codes for 2024. Critics correctly argue that the new codes are a “backdoor climate initiative” and will add to the cost of new housing....

Whether a worker wants union representation ought to be an individual decision. The federal and state laws that turn it into a collective decision should never have been passed and after they were passed, should have been declared unconstitutional.

Honest businessmen, who are well aware of the importance of customer goodwill, try to insure that their businesses are not harmed by the unscrupulous actions of others. Many of them have formed voluntary associations to provide self-regulation in their industries.

If the supply of new housing is restricted by the government’s monopoly power to initiate physical force against housing producers, the market price of housing will be higher.

Another example of “Soiled by Socialism” is government-mandated low-flow water faucets, showerheads, and toilets.

The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced a proposed rule to make dishwashers more “efficient” by limiting them to a maximum of 3.3 gallons per wash cycle, a reduction of one-third.

The Jones Act, the most restrictive cabotage law in the world, has decimated the number of American-flagged ships and the trade they carry, not built it up.

We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm. The review-and-approval model is broken, and we should find better ways to manage risk and create safety.

If we want companies to stop engaging in woke-washing, we must steer the incentives back toward supporting firms for their core offerings and stop basing our purchases according to cause-related marketing messages and social labels.

The deployment of the terms essential and nonessential, however, has no precedent in our language. This is because of a view stemming from the democratic ethos and real-world commercial experience that everyone and everything is essential to everything else.

COVID policies were a great mistake, imposed by arrogant officials who were not following science, but rather were following their own authoritarian instincts.

The power to tax or to regulate is also the power to control, not just in the supposed “public interest” but in the interest of the regulators themselves, or specific politicians, or the government more generally.

Wyoming: Blue California’s Red Mini-Me?

The alternative to state licensing is free-market certification.

New Biden administration regulations will lower the standard of living of Americans.

Do as I say, or else you will be fined or sent to prison.

If Cruz really wants parents, and all Americans, to have freedom of choice, he should call for the abolition of the FDA.

—and a Black Market for ‘Unapproved’ European Imports.

How can we preserve the benefits of self-governing districts without the cronyism that so often goes along with them?

The Jones Act, more commonly known as Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, restricts foreign-owned ships from loading cargo in one US port and unloading it in another.

In Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, the Supreme Court ruled that allowing labor unions to enter private property with a permission slip from the government violates the actual owner’s right to exclude.

Government should neither mandate nor ban vaccine passports or the other health decisions that individuals morally and rightfully should make for themselves.