Bureaucracy and Regulation

Los Angeles city bureaucrats want fewer cars on the streets. Unfortunately, their plans have side effects which endanger human life and safety.

Entitlement programs have worsened the problems they were designed to solve and are now giving out massive subsidies to the non-poor.

The way vaccines are packaged and distributed is often driven primarily by politics and government regulation — and not by medical concerns.

The corruption scandal that now plagues Justin Trudeau goes back to the rather questionable notion that the Canadian government ought to regulate contracts in foreign countries, while also setting an arbitrary distinction between legal and illegal bribery.

The data does not show that government taxes and regulation have been responsible for declines in smoking. At the same time, government approved cigarettes may be more dangerous than black market cigarettes.

Mandatory parental leave imposes costs on employees who don't qualify for leave, and on the employers themselves — driving down demand for workers, and raising unemployment. 

For decades, federal housing policy explicitly favored whites over blacks, likely worsening many of today's enduring wealth disparities.

MMT boils down to government using its monopoly over money to dictate and control production, obliterate free markets, suppress private enterprise, and impoverish the people.