A time of crisis only makes it obvious what the results of regulations are: we see the effects, because we feel the pain. But these effects are always present–and by design–only we do not see what it is we’re missing.
The Trump administration could have at least slowed down the horrid vandalism of the economy rather than his administration vandalizing it on its own with a $1 trillion spending plan
The crisis now confronting American journalism is a crisis of public confidence—a crisis of integrity and trust. President Trump has frequently given vent to the attitudes underlying this loss of trust. “The Fake News Media has never been so wrong or so dirty.”
The CDC does not have a solution, but it also becomes the classic blocker to progress. Labs cannot act without a lengthy approval process from CDC and the FDA. These government controls violate the principle of subsidiarity (problems should be solved at the lowest level possible).
That’s not what those figures show. It’s definitely worse than “a bad cold,” but whether or how much worse than the flu we don’t know. It very much depends on the individual and the country. The media’s repeated and continued invocation of Chinese death rates is simply pathetic.
I know that social democratic policies are emotionally appealing. That’s why they’ve won. Yet objectively speaking, market capitalism should have won because market capitalism offers much better results.
History is littered with examples of such regimes, and their track record is without exception abhorrent. It may seem counterintuitive, but the truth is that decentralized decision-making and market-style systems always beat centralization and power.
Wasting countless financial and environmental resources to save a handful of turtles might marginally benefit some local ecosystem, but it comes at the much-too-steep expense for the climate that the turtle savior so ardently favors.
Today, however, we are seeing the impoverishing downside of decades of political centralization in both the US and Europe. Government regulations decreed from Brussels and Washington continue to stifle innovation and entrepreneurship. The antidote to all of this is to decentralize.
The quick decision among most countries to deploy their military, force the lockdown of communities, pressure firms to withhold their services, and paralyze individual movement reveals that our liberties are expendable when our ruling class says they are.
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