Quotes About Regulation

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them.

The whole system is overseen by the government-created Federal Reserve System, which presides over a system-wide cartel.

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. - Thomas Jefferson

That government which governs best, governs least.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

The end of the world will be legal.

he gets on this ARPAnet trip, and I swear it's like acid, a whole 'nother strange world—time, space, all that shit." "So when they gonna make it illegal, Fritz?" "What. Why would they do that?" "Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different?

All in his life, of what has looked free or random, is discovered to have been under some control. All the time- the same as a fixed roulette wheel.

Weapons and food have been firmly linked in the governmental mind for as long as either has been around.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look the other way.

Government "planning" is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people's plans.

In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.

What is called "social" planning are in fact government orders over-riding the plans and mutual accommodations of millions of people subject to those orders.

How can this be, when the whole purpose of rent control is to keep rents down? First of all, the purpose of any policy tells you absolutely nothing about what will actually happen under that policy. Too many disastrous laws get passed because those who pass them win political points for their good intentions and nobody bothers to check up later to see what actually happened.

For most of the period of the boom, only Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch were recognized by the SEC. It was not the particular choices of rating-agencies selected by the SEC that is in question but the policy of giving those agencies a captive market.

One of the main problems of price control is to define the appropriate price of what is being controlled

Uno de los principales problemas del control de precios es el de definir el precio adecuado de lo que se está controlando